From large-scale projects to compute climate data, socio-technical experiments with
'smart'energy grids and 'smart'cities, to the attempts of traditional energy companies to …

As the world becomes increasingly digitalised, demand for data centre services is rising
rapidly. But huge strides in energy efficiency including a shift to efficient “hyperscale” data …

Digital platforms and the online services that they provide have become an indispensable
and ubiquitous part of modern lifestyles, mediating our jobs, hobbies, patterns of …

The past several years have seen increased scholarly attention to the concept of
'extraction'and 'extractivism'as critical frameworks in the humanities and social sciences …

In 2018, Norway promoted itself as a 'Datacentre Nation'. In terms of low cost, renewably
generated sources of electricity and low ambient temperatures, Nordic countries and the …

In this article, I take the case of data centers as a powerful tool and infrastructure of
multinational digital capitalism, analyzing the ways in which understanding these and other …

Both policymakers and the technology industry need to do more to combat the ever-growing
demand for data and its associated energy impacts. In this study, based on novel corporate …

Data centres are facilities that house digital data processing (IT) equipment that enables
networked communication activity. Since the launch of the world wide web in 1989 the …

Cloud computing is an efficient way to provide IT capacity. From an ecological perspective,
the use of cloud computing is usually assumed to entail lower consumption of energy and …

The data-driven economy is transforming with data centers becoming a crucial business
infrastructure. However, the increasing reliance on data centers is posing a threat to the …