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Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland Volume 11

Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland Volume 11

Johnson, Alix

Hardcover

Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyProgramming

ISBN10: 0520396359
ISBN13: 9780520396357
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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