Data Farms: Circuits, Labour, Territory.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruder, Johannes, Contributor.

Cashman, Sarah, Contributor.

Hansen, Kim Mumm, Contributor.

Hoyng, Rolien, Contributor.

Hristova, Tsvetelina, Editor, Contributor.

Indira-Ganesh, Maya, Contributor.

Ledwidge, Michela, Contributor.

Magee, Liam, Contributor.

Mauro-Flude, Nancy, Contributor.

Munn, Luke, Contributor.

Mylecharane, Paul, Contributor.

Neilson, Brett, Editor, Contributor.

Notley, Tanya, Contributor.

Rossiter, Ned, Editor, Contributor.

Sprenger, Florian, Contributor.

Yong, Stefan, Contributor.

Library Stack, distributor.

Public Office, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Computer networks.

Geopolitics.

Natural resources.

Transborder data flow.

Networks.

Transborder Data Flows.

Genre:

Discursive works

Essay Collection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], Open Humanities Press, 2022.

Summary:

"What is at stake in naming data centers as data farms? These installations are essentially hangars packed with computers. They congregate servers, switches and wires that facilitate the storage, processing and transmission of data in high volumes and at fast speeds. Data centers present a scale of operations, potentially planetary in scope, that intensifies and multiplies the productive and extractive capacities of digital technologies. The economic advantages that accrue to parties with servers in these installations derive not only from opportunities for peering and networking but also from inputs to client machines that may be situated at vast distance. Yet data centers have precise locations, often clustering where there is access to energy, skills, land concessions, tax exemptions or undersea cables. There are no data centers without land and water. Like the 'dark satanic mills' associated with the factories of the industrial revolution, data centers burn fossil fuels. Yet, despite these continuities with agrarian and industrial activity, the data economy generates stark figurations of territory, power and circulation."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

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Unrestricted online access