Where Cloud Is Ground (eBook)

Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland

Alix Johnson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
228 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39637-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Where Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centers—facilities where large quantities of data are processed and stored—the book traces the fraught work of siting data’s material manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local politics, national narratives, and still-open questions of spatial justice and sovereignty. Doing so, it unsettles techno-utopian ideals of connectivity and offers a window into what it means to live with our data, in a place where more and more data now lives.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures 
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Naming 

Introduction: Putting Data in Its Place 

PART I ARTICUTION

1. A Natural Fit 
2. The Switzerland of Bits 

PART II ANCHORING 

3. Something from Nothing 
4. Data Centers, Data Peripheries 

PART III EXCESS 

5. Inside Out 
Conclusion 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
• Reihe/Serie: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Big Bitcoin Heist • computer cloud industry • Construction • Digital Infrastructure • Energy Consumption • government initiatives • Icelandic data center development • Icelandic Modern Media Initiative • Landscape • Naval Air Station Keflavik • Reykjanes Peninsula • Storage
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39637-5 / 0520396375
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39637-1 / 9780520396371