Mapping the clouds: The matter of data centres
peer reviewed ; The social spatial geographies of telecommunications and their infrastructures have long interested scholars in the social sciences, and in urban geography specifically. This paper focuses on data centers. Much effort has been placed in preserving the notion that data centers are ‘clouds’, a terminology that obfuscates the real human geographies of cyberplaces. In this map-making exercise, we visualize the sociopolitical human geographies of data centers, and provoke the reader to consider the impacts that data centers have on residents and their environments. The maps shown in... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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Taylor and Francis
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Schlagwörter: | Amsterdam / cyberplace / data centers / hyperscale / Luxembourg / Seattle / Social & behavioral sciences / psychology / Human geography & demography / Sciences sociales & comportementales / psychologie / Geographie humaine & démographie |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28698457 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/51846 |