Where cloud is ground : placing data and making place in Iceland / Alix Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Alix (Anthropologist), author.

Series:

Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 11.

Atelier : ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data centers--Iceland.

Data centers.

Data centers--Location.

Information retrieval--Iceland.

Information retrieval.

Iceland.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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 is 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : putting data in its place

A natural fit

The Switzerland of bits

Something from nothing

Data centers and data peripheries

Inside out

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Johnson, Alix (Anthropologist) Where cloud is ground

ISBN:

9780520396357

0520396359

9780520396364

0520396367

OCLC:

1375186352