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How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in Frontier AI

Erik B. Dam, Janin Koch, Mophat Okinyi, Raghavendra Selvan, Sebastian Mair, Sophia N. Wilson

Hyper-datafication in frontier AI redistributes environmental burdens, labor risks, and representational harms toward the Global South and precarious workers.

arxiv:2602.00056 v4 · 2026-01-20 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Our analyses reveal that hyper-datafication does not merely increase resource consumption but systematically redistributes environmental burdens, labour risks, and representational harms toward the Global South, precarious data workers, and under-represented cultures.

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That the sample of approximately 550,000 Hugging Face Hub datasets combined with qualitative responses from data workers in Kenya sufficiently represents the global data practices and impacts of frontier AI models.

C3one line summary

Hyper-datafication in frontier AI increases resource consumption and redistributes environmental burdens, labor risks, and representational harms toward the Global South, data workers, and under-represented cultures, based on analysis of 550,000 Hugging Face datasets and Kenyan worker responses.

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arxiv: 2602.00056 · arxiv_version: 2602.00056v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.00056 · pith_short_12: HJFXGWJTFENV · pith_short_16: HJFXGWJTFENV5K4M · pith_short_8: HJFXGWJT

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