When the Cloud Has Roots: Tech, Land & Justice in Brazil

Brazil is at the center of two major transitions: digital expansion, including a surge in AI infrastructure, and energy transformation. Both are framed as climate solutions, but on the ground they depend on land, water, energy, and minerals — reshaping territories and lives, often without the participation of those who live there.

Its impacts are far from equally distributed. Part of the problem is an old idea: that infrastructure can be separated from territory, technology from environment, data from people. And even in civil society, we often reproduce this split: digital rights on one side, environmental justice on the other.

This talk brings together perspectives that are rarely in the same space. At its heart: a group of women in northeast Brazil organizing across these divides, connecting digital rights, energy justice, and territorial struggles.

What becomes possible when we stop treating these as separate fights? This talk invites you to look beyond the promise of technological solutions  and to rethink digital transformation through the lens of justice, participation, and territory.