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.
| ISBN: | 9780520396364 |
| Publication date: | 20th December 2023 |
| Author: | Alix Johnson |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | Atelier. Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century |
| Genres: |
Archaeology |