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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 sp...
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24 October 2023

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 are 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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 228
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Publication Date:
24 October 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520396364
Format: Paperback
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Alix Johnson is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Macalester College.
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
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