Description
Book SynopsisWhere 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 ContentsContents
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
