The Data Center Frontier

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The Data Center Frontier

What fuels the data center economy? What minerals are mined to build it, and what energy systems power it? Who bears the environmental and social costs—and what can we learn from the long tradition of Indigenous resistance to extractive infrastructure, as well as recent campaigns challenging data centers in the U.S.?

Meet the 2026-2028 Red Natural History Fellows

These scholar-activists bring diverse methodologies and lived experiences to bear on the ecological and social crises shaping our times.

Open Call: 2026-28 Red Natural History Fellowship

In a time when critical and creative inquiry are under attack, The Natural History Museum is inviting applications for the 2026-2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, a two-year program dedicated to

RFP: Design/Planning for “Green” Mobile Museum & Media Lab

The Natural History Museum seeks proposals from consultants to guide the planning and design of a new, touring, community-engaged “Mobile Museum & Media Lab”, with a focus on renewable energy technologies and sustainable/green building design.

Challenging Carbon Colonialism at COP16

On the occasion of the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16) in Colombia this week, we’ve rounded up resources from our cohort of Red Natural History Fellows that can help us understand and break from false solutions and carbon colonialism.