Data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media: An introduction

J Velkova, JC Plantin - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While data centres are predominantly studied via their spatial and territorial dimensions, we
investigate this critical part of the contemporary Internet infrastructures via its temporalities …

Future‐proof: bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra‐secure cloud storage

ARE Taylor - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Abandoned after the Cold War, nuclear bunkers around the world have found
afterlives as ultra‐secure data storage sites for cloud computing providers. The operators of …

Concrete clouds: Bunkers, data, preparedness

ARE Taylor - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As visions of the end-times accelerate under neoliberal capitalism, corporations and
governments are moving their valuable digital data into that most iconic end-of-the-world …

[HTML][HTML] SubCity: Planning for a sustainable subsurface in Stockholm

M Kuchler, A Craig-Thompson, E Alofe… - … and Underground Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
With an expected increase in urbanisation and low-carbon transition efforts, the planning of
cities is becoming more challenging, and societies need to rethink how urban infrastructures …

[图书][B] Countering the Cloud: Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures

L Munn - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
How do cables and data centers think? This book investigates how information
infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the pervasive logics of …

Injecting failure: Data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience

L Munn - The Information Society, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Data center infrastructures provide a lens for understanding the rise of resilience thinking, for
grasping the pragmatism and promise of resilience as approach. Unable to anticipate every …

Screen Clusters: Urban Renewal, Architectural Preservation, and the Infrastructures of Urban Media

Z Melzer - 2019 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
As screen technologies proliferate in everyday and quotidian urban contexts, studies of
screens placed on façades of buildings have largely focused on understanding how these …

[图书][B] Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia

L Munn - 2023 - library.oapen.org
Territory is shifting. No longer defined by the dotted line of the border or the national footprint
of soil, today's territories are enacted through data infrastructures. From subsea cables to …

Big cloud solastalgia

M Hogan, G Blue - Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter critiques the concept of 'digital sustainability'in the context of massive cloud
computing infrastructure operated by big tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon …

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

C Certomà - api.taylorfrancis.com
This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustaina‑bility. Amid
escalating environmental crises, some of which are now irreversible, there is a noticeable …