Data centers enable many of the digital services that we see as central to modern life, from artificial intelligence (AI) applications to online financial transactions to cloud computing and video streaming. However, data centers also require significant energy and water resources, potentially straining local utility grids and municipal water supplies and contributing to rising greenhouse gas emissions.

In an increasingly technology-shaped world, emerging tech and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not just tools — they are social systems that shape opportunity, equity, and power.   This session blends personal storytelling, reflective activities, and accessible tech concepts to help participants explore their role as engaged citizens in the AI era by discovering their unique superpowers to:

Asian American youth literature had a slow start in the early twentieth century. Books were mostly in the genres of folk and fairy tales and written by outsiders at that time. There were books about Asians in Asia, but almost nothing about Asians in the United States. After World War II and the Korean War, some books about Japanese American incarceration and Korean War orphans emerged, but it wasn’t until the Civil Rights Movement that more books shared stories of Asians in the United States.