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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 centersfacilities where large quantities of data are processed and storedthe 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.

Table of Contents
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

Where Cloud Is Ground

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 24 October 2023
      ISBN-13 9780520396364
      978-0520396364
      ISBN-10 0520396367
      Also in:
      History Archaeology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 centersfacilities where large quantities of data are processed and storedthe 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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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