{"product_id":"where-cloud-is-ground-9780520396364","title":"Where Cloud Is Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Language and Naming \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Putting Data in Its Place \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I ARTICUTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Natural Fit \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Switzerland of Bits \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II ANCHORING \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Something from Nothing \u003cbr\u003e 4. Data Centers, Data Peripheries \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART III EXCESS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Inside Out \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402971029847,"sku":"9780520396364","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520396364.jpg?v=1730481999","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/where-cloud-is-ground-9780520396364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}