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Rahul Mukherjee

@rahmuk.bsky.social

Associate Professor, Penn CIMS. Wrote "Radiant Infrastructures" (DUP, 2020). Writing "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT, 2026)." Platforms, Energy, Environment

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I wrote a fresh paper on financial intermediaries in the loan app ecosystem based on interviews with data analysts, lending platform professionals, consumer rights groups, and financial journalists for Platforms & Society journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

27.05.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI power demand is generating hallucinations Chatbot-running data centers are expected to guzzle 12% of US electricity by 2030. Yet tech giants and utilities are best served by over-estimating demand. Disconnects between, say, Microsoft’s project cancellations and its astonishing growth may worsen, shaking the supply chain.

“Whatever the cause, the energy industry’s crystal balls often produce overcooked figures.”

www.reuters.com/breakingview...

25.05.2025 01:51 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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How is the fungibility of money<->data in #credit relations intermediated? Writing about #India, in a recent paper Rahul Mukherjee traces the #platform #intermediation processes in the loan app ecosystem. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

22.05.2025 09:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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