City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground

Architektur und Daten

Damjan Kokalevski, Andres Lepik, Cara Hähl-Pfeifer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2025
ArchiTangle (Verlag)
978-3-96680-039-6 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world. Data may appear immaterial, but it relies on extensive global networks: the extraction of raw materials, the deployment of thousands of undersea cables, and an exponentially growing number of energy-intensive data centers. While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they truly do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labor conditions-realms so often rooted in (neo)colonial structures of exploitation. The contributions in this volume call for greater transparency, critical awareness, and care toward the material foundations of the data economy-as essential conditions for more equitable and accountable digital futures. Bringing together voices from architecture, media studies, technology, art, and political theory, City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground explores the elemental, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the architecture of data. The volume maps the costs of the data economy-ecological, social, and political-and opens up perspectives for rethinking digital infrastructures in the context of planetary resources, justice, and long-term responsibility.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Co-Autor	James Bridle, Giulia Bruno, Teresa Fankhänel, Max Hallinan, Mél Hogan, Catherine Hyland, Niklas Maak, Marija Marić, Anna-Maria Meister, Marina Otero Verzier, Godofredo Enes Pereira, Andra Pop-Jurj, Alison Powell, Rafael Uriarte
Zusatzinfo	Fotografien
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	deutsch
Maße	230 x 300 mm
Gewicht	1500 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	data center • Digital Infrastructure • Green Transition • Resource Economy • server farms
ISBN-10	3-96680-039-X / 396680039X
ISBN-13	978-3-96680-039-6 / 9783966800396
Zustand	Neuware