Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland Volume 11

by Alix Johnson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520396359
• ISBN13: 9780520396357
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"