Critical Data Center Studies

Critical Data Center Studies

Books

Amoore, Louise. 2020. Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics

Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; Sanz. V; Otero Verzier, M (2023). Automated Landscapes. Rotterdam: Nieuwe Instituut. https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/automated-landscapes

Benjamin, Ruha, 2019, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, ok, Wendy W. (2023) digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future, ORO Editions (August 29, 2023) (Amazon) Polity ISBN: 978-1-509-52643-7 https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology 

Blix, H., & Glimmer, I. (2025). Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares. Common Notions, Brooklyn, New York. https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai 

Blum, A. (2012). Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. New York: Ecco.

Bratton B. H. (2015). The Stack: On software and sovereignty. MIT Press.

Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie (2025) From the Bog to the Cloud Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland. Bristol University Press.

Bridle, James (2022) Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 21, 2022)

Busse, Tanya and Škarnulytė, Emilija (2025). New Mineral Collective: The Pleasure Report. Information Office. https://i-o.cc/books/nmc 

Calvillo, Nerea (2023). Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

Cath, Corinne (ed.) (2023). Eaten By The Internet. Meatspace Press.

Crawford, Kate (2021) Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Yale University Press (April 6, 2021)

Cubitt, Sean. 2017. Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press.

Dauvergne, Peter (2020) AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The MIT Press (September 15, 2020)

Demos, T.J. (2023). Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come. Sternberg Press.

Dourish, Paul. 2017. The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Easterling, Keller. (2014). Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. Verso.

Emerson, Lori (2025). Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Anthology Editions.

Gabrys, Jennifer (2011) Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Goldstein, Jenny (Editor), Eric Nost (Editor) (2022) The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics University of Nebraska Press (October 1, 2022)

Holt, Jennifer (2024) Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data. MIT Press

Hu, Tung.-Hui. (2015). A Prehistory of the Cloud. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/prehistory-cloud 

Johnson, Alix (2023) Where cloud is ground : placing data and making place in Iceland, Oakland, California: University of California Press.

Johnson, Jeremy David (2025). Algorithmic Worldmaking: The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817322212/algorithmic-worldmaking/ 

Lehdonvirta, Vili (2024) Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control The MIT Press.

Lovink, Geert (2022) Extinction Internet Geert Lovink: Extinction Internethttps://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/extinction-internet/ 

Maak, Niklas. 2022. Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy.. Hatje Cantz.

McQuillan, Dan (2022) Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Bristol University Press; 1st edition (July 15, 2022)

Maxwell, R., & Miller, T. (2012). Greening the Media (1 edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Mosco, Vincent. (2014) To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World Routledge.

Munn, Luke (2023) Countering the Cloud, Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures. Routledge, ISBN 9781032376424

Mulvin, D. (2021) Proxies. The Cultural Work of Standing In. MIT Press. (Open Access: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5154/ProxiesThe-Cultural-Work-of-Standing-In )

Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwt9w5.

O'Gieblyn, Meghan (2021) God, Human, Animal, Machine (August 24, 2021) ISBN 9780525562719

Parikka, J. (2011). Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste. Open Humanities Press.

Parks, Lisa, and Nicole Starosielski, eds. Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Peters, J. D. (2015). The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media. Chicago ; London: University Of Chicago Press.

Starosielski, N. (2021). Media Hot and Cold. Durham: Duke University Press Books.

Starosielski, N. (2015). The Undersea Network. Durham: Duke University Press Books.

Stengers, I. 2016. In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism. Open Humanities Press.

Tarnoff, Ben. (2022). Internet For The People: The Fight For Our Digital Future. Verso.

Voss, Georgina (2024). Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World. Verso.

Public Scholarship, Academic Articles and Chapters

Amoore, Louise. 2018. “Cloud Geographies: Computing, Data, Sovereignty.” Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 1 (2018): 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516662147.

Au, Yung. 2022. “Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures” ​​Territory, Politics, Governance https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2022.2153160 

Bast, D., Carr, C., Madron, K., & Syrus, A. M. (2022). “Four reasons why data centers matter, five implications of their social spatial distribution, one graphic to visualize them”. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 54(3), 441–445. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211069139

Borning, Alan, Batya Friedman, and Nick Logler. “The ‘invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology.” Communications of the ACM 63, no. 6 (May 21, 2020): 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360647 

Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. 2021. “New Extractive Frontiers in Ireland and the Moebius Strip of Wind/Data.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, vol. 4, no. 4: 1645-1664. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620970121.

Bresnihan, P., & Brodie, P. (2023). Data sinks, carbon services: Waste, storage and energy cultures on Ireland’s peat bogs. New Media & Society, 25(2), 361-383.

Brodie, Patrick. 2023. Data Infrastructure Studies on an Unequal Planet. Big Data and Society, vol 10, no. 1: 1-14.

Brodie, Patrick. 2021. “Hosting Cultures: Placing the Global Data Center ‘Industry.’” Canadian Journal of Communication, special issue Materials and Media of Infrastructure, edited by Rafico Ruiz and Aleksandra Kaminska, vol. 46, no. 2: 151-176. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2021v46n2a3773.

Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “’Stuck in Mud in the Fields of Athenry’: Apple, Territory, and Popular Politics.” Culture Machine, special issue Media Populism, edited by Giuseppe Fidotta, Joshua Neves, and Joaquin Serpe, vol. 19. https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/8.-Patrick-Brodie-revised-1.pdf.

​​Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “Climate Extraction and Supply Chains of Data.” Media, Culture and Society, vol. 42, issue 7-8: 1095-1114. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0163443720904601.

Boellstorff, Tom, 2020. “Culture of the Cloud’, Journal for Virtual Worlds Research, vol. 2. Issue 5. https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v2i5.792 

Brodie, Patrick and Julia Velkova. 2021. “Cloud Ruins: Ericsson’s Vaudreuil-Dorion Data Center and Infrastructural Abandonment.” Information, Communication and Society, special issue AOIR2020, edited by Jonathan Hutchinson and Aphra Kerr, vol. 24, no. 6: 869-885. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1909099.

Burrell, Jenna. “On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6 (2020): 283–305. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.447.

Carnino, Guillaume, Clément Marquet. 2018. “Les data centers enfoncent le cloud : enjeux politiques et impacts environnementaux d’internet”. Zilsel, Vol. 3, n°1, p. 19-62, https://doi.org/10.3917/zil.003.0019

Carnino, Guillaume, Clément Marquet. 2019. “Du mythe de l'automatisation au savoir-faire des petites mains : une histoire du data center par la panne”, Artfefact, vol. 11, p. 163-190 https://doi.org/10.4000/artefact.4731

Guillaume Carnino, Clément Marquet. 2022. « Cooling, quick fix et spaghetti cloud dans l’univers du datacenter. Changement d’échelle et industrialisation du numérique », Artefact, vol. 17, p. 309-335, https://doi.org/10.4000/artefact.13419

Carr, Constance, Desmond Bast, Karinne Madron & Ahmad Mafaz Syrus “Mapping the clouds: the matter of data centres” Journal of Maps Published online: 27 Jul 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2088304.

Carruth, Allison. 2014. “The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy.” Public Culture. Duke University Press Journals. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392093.

Chang, Weiyi (2023) “universal, timeless, celestial”  https://www.gallery44.org/wir-weiyi-chang-2 

Childs, Quincy. 2022. “"This Has Nothing to Do With Clouds": A Decolonial Approach to Data Centers in the Node Pole” Common Place Published on Jun 29, 2022 DOI 10.21428/6ffd8432.59c985d5 https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/0rpv3iuc/release/1 

Citrome L. G. (2014). Data centers and reits: Is there real estate in the cloud? New York University Journal of Law & Business, 11(1), 246.

Cooper, Z.G.T. (2021) “Of dog kennels, magnets, and hard drives: Dealing with Big Data peripheries.” Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211015430

Cooper, Zane, Dustin Edwards and Mél Hogan (2024) “The Making of Critical Data Centre Studies” in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231224157?journalCode=cona         

Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2019). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. Television & New Media, 20(4), 336–349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418796632

Cubitt, S., Hassan, R., and Volkmer, I. (2011) “Does cloud computing have a silver lining?” Media Culture Society 2011 33: 149. http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/33/1/149 

Dudy, S., Ahmad, I. S., Kitajima, R., & Lapedriza, A. (2024) “Analyzing cultural representations of emotions in LLMs through mixed emotion survey”. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Glasgow, UK. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02143

Edwards, Dustin W. “Digital Rhetoric on a Damaged Planet: Storying Digital Damage as Inventive Response to the Anthropocene.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2020, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2019.1690372.

Ensmenger, Nathan. “The Environmental History of Computing.” Technology and Culture 59, no. 4 (2018): S7–S33. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2018.0148

Ensmenger, Nathan. (2021). The Cloud is a Factory. In T. S. Mullaney, B. Peters, M. Hicks, & K. Philip (Eds.), Your Computer Is on Fire. The MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539739/your-computer-is-on-fire/

Ensmenger, Nathan, and Rebecca Slayton. “Computing and the Environment.” Information & Culture 52, no. 3 (2017): 295–303. https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2017.0011 

Fard, Ali. (2024) “Platforms and Palimpsests: Urban Landscapes of Data in Northern Virginia.” Footprint 33. https://doi.org/10.59490/footprint.17.2.6726

Fard, Ali. (2023) “Machines in Landscape/Territorial Instruments: On the Sociotechnical Production of Planetary Platforms.” In Datapolis, edited by Negar Sanaan Bensi and Paul Cournet, 183-194. Rotterdam: NAI Publishers.

Fard, Ali. (2020) “Cloudy Landscapes: On the Extended Geography of Smart Urbanism.” Telematics and Informatics 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101450

Fish, Adam and Bradley L. Garrett (2019) “Resurrection from Bunkers and Data Centers” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/resurrection-from-bunkers/ 

Frenzel, Janna (2023)“Data Rush: How ‘Green’ Computing is Opening Up a New Frontier in Arctic Norway”, in White, Darcy, Julia Peck, and Chris Goldie (eds.): Disturbed ecologies: geopolitics and the northern landscape in the era of environmental crisis, Transcript, 75-94.

Frenzel, Janna and Sarah-Louise Ruder (2023) Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated. https://theconversation.com/can-the-heat-from-running-computers-help-grow-our-food-its-complicated-201064 

Gantz, J. F. (2008). The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe. ResearchGate. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229124758_The_Diverse_and_Exploding_Digital_Universe

Gilmore, J. N., & Troutman, B. (2020). Articulating infrastructure to water: Agri-culture and Google’s South Carolina data center. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877920913044

Greene, Daniel (2022)  “Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate” Social Studies of Science https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03063127221124943 

Gonzalez, Steven M. “The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud” (MIT Press)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/ 

Gray, Catriona. 2023. “More than Extraction: Rethinking Data's Colonial Political Economy.” International Political Sociology 17 (2): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad007 

Hampton, Leila Marie. 2023. “Techno-Racial Capitalism: A Decolonial Black Feminist Marxist Perspective.” In Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Data, Algorithms and Intelligent Machines, edited by Jude Browne, Stephen Cave, Eleanor Drage, and Kerry McInerney. Oxford University Press.

Hogan, Mél (2024) “The pulse of the data center” Acid Clouds Mapping Data Centre Topologies https://acidclouds.org 

Hogan, Mél (2024) “Big Cloud Solastalgia” In Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls, Routledge

Hogan, Mél and Théo Lepage-Richer (2024) “Extractive AI” https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/climatetechhoganlepagericher 

Hogan, Mél (2024) “The Fumes of AI” Critical AI Journal https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-11205231/390852/The-Fumes-of-AI

Hogan, Mél (2024) “AI is a Hot Mess” Training the Archive Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne ISBN: 978-3-7533-0566-0

Hogan, Mél (2023) “‘Environmental Media’ in the Cloud: The Making of Critical Data Center Art” New Media & Society Volume 25, Issue 2 p. 384–404 In: Special issue: The Infrastructural Temporalities and Imaginaries of Data Centres. Jean-Christophe Plantin and Julia Velkova (eds) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221149942 

Hogan, Mél. (2021) “The Data Center Industrial Complex.” In Saturation an Elemental Politics, edited by Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz, 283–305. Durham: Duke University Press.

Hogan, Mél. (2018) “Big Data Ecologies” Ephemera: theory & politics in organisation, Volume 18.3: 631-657 http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/big-data-ecologies 

Hogan, Mél. (2016) “Minus Risk Equals Progress: the Data Center in the Anthropocene” 6th issue, Special Feature of 5: The Anthropocene and Our Post-natural Future, Dec 2016. https://www.academia.edu/30502407/Minus_Risk_Equals_Progress_The_Data_Center_in_the_Anthropocene_2016_ 

Hogan, Mél. 2015. “Data Flows and Water Woes: The Utah Data Center.” Big Data & Society 2 (2): 1–12. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951715592429.

Hogan, Mél and Tamara Shepherd (2015) “Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance” Journal of Information Policy. Vol. 5 (2015), pp. 6-31 https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.5.2015.0006.

Hogan, Mél. (2013). Facebook Data Storage Centers as the archive’s underbelly. Television & New Media, 1527476413509415.

Huang, Janna Z. (2023) “A break in the cloud: the local sociotechnical affordances underlying global internet infrastructures”, Technology in Society, Volume 74, 2023, 102319, ISSN 0160-791X,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102319.

Jacobson, Kate, and Mél Hogan. (2019) “Retrofitted Data Centres: a New World in the Shell of the Old.” Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, vol. 13, no. 2, 2019, pp. 78–94. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0078 

Jancovic, Marek and Judith Keilbach “Streaming against the Environment. Digital Infrastructures, Video Compression, and the Environmental Footprint of Video Streaming In Es, K. van & N. Verhoeff (eds.), Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048555444-007 

Jha Manish and Ritam Sengupta. Data Centres as Infrastructure: Frontiers of Digital Governance in contemporary India, Orient Blackswan, 2022.

Johnson, Alix (2019) “Emplacing Data Within Imperial Histories: Imagining Iceland as Data Centers’ ‘Natural’ Home” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centershttps://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/emplacing-data/ 

Johnson, Alix. “Data Centers as Infrastructural In-Betweens: Expanding Connections and Enduring Marginalities in Iceland.” American Ethnologist 46, no. 1 (2019): 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12735 

Jones, Nicola. “How to Stop Data Centres from Gobbling Up the World’s Electricity.” Nature 561, no. 7722 (2018): 163–66. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06610-y.

Kannengießer, Sigrid and Patrick McCurdy “5 Mediatisation and Climate Change” In: Contemporary Challenges in Mediatisation Research edited by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Göran Bolin

Klodner, Michal (2022). “Ecosystems and artistic research in forming digital curatorial infrastructures” In: The Black Box Book. Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions. Brno: Masaryk University Press https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7706902

Kotliar, Dan M., and Alex Gekker (2024). "Migrating the State into Corporate Clouds." Information, Communication & Society: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2343816

Lally, Nick, Kay Kelly and Jim Thatcher. 2022. “Computational parasites and hydropower: A political ecology of Bitcoin mining on the Columbia River” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, vol. 5 n°1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2514848619867608 

Laser, Stefan, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, Koushik Ravi Kumar “The environmental footprint of social media hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon” EASST Review Volume 41(3) 2022 https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/ 

Lehuedé, Sebastián (2022): Territories of data: ontological divergences in the growth of data infrastructure, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2035936 

Levenda, Anthony M. and Dillon Mahmoudi (2019) “Silicon Forest and Server Farms: The (Urban) Nature of Digital Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/silicon-forest-and-server-farms/ 

Levin, Boaz and Ryan Jeffery (2016) “Lost in the Cloud: The Representati on of Networked Infrastructure and it Discontents” (June 21, 2016) Spheres

https://spheres-journal.org/contribution/lost-in-the-cloud-the-representation-of-networked-infrastructure-and-its-discontents/ 

Luccioni, Alexandra Sasha., Strubell, Emma., and Crawford, Kate. “From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects: The Problem of Jevons' Paradox in AI's Polarized Environmental Debate.” In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '25), 76-88. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732007

Luersen, Eduardo and Bibiana da Silva de Paula (2024) “After the Stack Opaque Cloud Gaming Infrastructure and Environmental Outsourcing Metabolisms”. In Nikolaus Koenig et al., eds. Money | Games | Economies. 283–306. Krems an der Donau: University of Krems Press. Open access: https://doi.org/10.48341/xrtn-se56

Pengfei Li, Jianyi Yang, Mohammad A. Islam, Shaolei Ren (2023) “Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models” https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271 

Maguire, James and Brit Ross Winthereik. 2021. “Digitalizing the State: Data Centres and the Power of Exchange.” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, vol. 86, no. 3: 530-551.

Marquet, Clément. 2018. “Ce nuage que je ne saurais voir. Promouvoir, contester, réguler les data centers à Plaine Commune”, Tracés, vol. 35, p.75-98, https://doi.org/10.4000/traces.8235

Masanet, Eric, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Smith, and Jonathan Koomey. 2020. “Recalibrating Global Data Center Energy-Use Estimates.” Science 367 (6481): 984–86. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba3758.

Mayer, Vicki (2019) “The Second Coming: Google and Internet Infrastructure” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/the-second-coming/

Mayer, V. (2020). From peat to Google power: Communications infrastructures and structures of feeling in Groningen. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 136754942093589. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549420935898

Monroe, Dwayne (2022) “Seeding the Cloud” Logic Mag Issue 16, Cloud https://logicmag.io/clouds/seeding-the-cloud/ 

Monserrate, Steven Gonzalez (2022)  “The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage” https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material/release/1 

Moriniere, S., Snaith, B., Inverarity, C., Redler-Hawes, H., Freeman, D. J. and Keller, D. J. R. (2023). Power, ecology and diplomacy in critical data infrastructures. The Open Data Institute. https://doi.org/10.61557/hqez4271 

Moro, Jeffrey. (2019) “Air Conditioning the Internet.” Jeffrey Moro (blog). October 10, 2019. https://jeffreymoro.com/research/2019/asap2019/.

Munn, Luke (2020) “Injecting failure: Data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience” The Information Society, 36(3), 167–176 https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2020.1737607 

Munn, Luke (2022). “Twinned power: Formations of cloud-edge control.” Information, Communication & Society, 25(7), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1808043

Munn, Luke (2020). “Staying at the Edge of Privacy: Edge Computing and Impersonal Extraction.” Media and Communication, 8(2), 270–279. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2761

Munn, Luke (2020). “Thinking through silicon: Cables and servers as epistemic infrastructures.” New Media & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820977197

Munn, Luke (2021). “F Singapore’s Triple Territories.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 7(1), 220–246. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.7.1.0220

Munn, Luke (2021). “Imperfect Orchestration: Inside the Data Center’s Struggle for Efficiency.” Computational Culture, 8. http://computationalculture.net/imperfect-orchestration-inside-the-data-centers-struggle-for-efficiency/

Munn, Luke (2022 forthcoming), “Data and the New Oil: Cloud Computing’s Lubrication of the Petrotechnical.” Journal of Environmental Media, 2(2), 211-227. [ preprint here ]  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359427015_Data_and_the_New_Oil_Cloud_Computing's_Lubrication_of_the_Petrotechnical

Mytton David, Ashtine Masaō. 2022. “Sources of data center energy estimates: A comprehensive review”, Joule,  Vol. 6, n° 9, https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(22)00358-0

Narayan, Devika (2022) “Platform capitalism and cloud infrastructure: Theorizing a hyper-scalable computing regime” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X221094028 

Neilson, Brett (2020) “Capital Operations: Data and Waste.” E-Flux Architecture, https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/at-the-border/325813/capital-operations-data-and-waste/ 

Neilson, Brett and Tanya Notley (2019) “Data Centres as Logistical Facilities: Singapore and the Emergence of Production Topologies” Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 13(1): 15-29.

Neilson, Brett and Ned Rossiter (2019) “Theses on Automation and Labour.” In Didier Bigo, Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert, eds. Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights. 187-206. Abingdon: Routledge. Open access: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781315167305/data-politics-didier-bigo-engin-isin-evelyn-ruppert

Neilson, Brett and Ned Rossiter (2022) “ Automating Labour and the Spatial Politics of Data Centre Technologies.” In Mascha Will-Zocholl and Caroline Roth-Ebner, eds. Topologies of Digital Work: How Digitalisation and Virtualisation Shape Working Spaces and Places. 77-101. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Open access: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80327-8_4 

Neilson, B., Rossiter, N., & Notley, T. (2016). “Where’s your data? It’s not actually in the cloud, it’s sitting in a data centre.” August 30, 2016. http://theconversation.com/wheres-your-data-its-not-actually-in-the-cloud-its-sitting-in-a-data-centre-64168

Otero Verzier, Marina. "Data Mourning," in Algorithmic Imaginary. Art on the Blockchain and in the Metaverse, Sabine Himmelsbach, Boris Magrini (ed.)

HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), 2023.

Otero Verzier, Marina. "Death by Data : The Proliferation of Data Centres, Considered Essential to Technological Progress, has Detrimental Ecological Consequences." The Architectural Review (London) no. 1495 (10/01/2022): 88-93

Otero Verzier, Marina. " From Data Center to Data Forest," Datapolis (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2023).

Ortar, N., ARE Taylor, J Velkova, P Brodie, A Johnson (2022) Chapter 4: “4 Powering 'smart' futures: data centres and the energy politics of digitalisation” Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Pan, Darcy (2022): Storing data on the margins: making state and infrastructure in Southwest China, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2077125 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2077125 

Parker, Matt (2019) “An Apple a day: Listening to data centre site selection through a sonospheric investigation” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/an-apple-a-day/ 

Pasek, Anne. 2019. “Managing Carbon and Data Flows: Fungible Forms of Mediation in the Cloud.” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers (April). http://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/managing-carbon/.

Pickren, Graham (2016) “The global assemblage of digital flow”: Critical data studies and the infrastructures of computing. Progress in Human Geography. 2016: 1-19.

Pickren, Graham (2017) “The Factories of the Past Are Turning Into the Data Centres of the Future” ​​Imaginations Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Location and Dislocation: Global Geographies of Digital Data https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29366

Rone, Julia (2023) “The shape of the cloud: Contesting data centre construction in North Holland” New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221145928 

Rosati, C., James, A. and Metcalf, K. (2023) “Data plantation: Northern Virginia and the territorialization of digital civilization in ‘the Internet Capital of the World’” Online Media and Global Communication 2(2), pp. 199-227. https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2023-0017

Rossiter, Ned (2017) “Imperial Infrastructures and Asia Beyond Asia: Data Centres, State Formation and the Territoriality of Logistical Media” Fibreculture Journal 29, https://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-220-imperial-infrastructures-and-asia-beyond-asia-data-centres-state-formation-and-the-territoriality-of-logistical-media/ 

Sargsyan, Sati (Satenik) “Data centers and Indigenous sovereignty: Data center materialities, representation and power in Sápmi/northern Sweden” Supervisor: Lars Lundgren, Södertörn University | School of Culture and Education Master’s research 30 credits, Media, Communication and Cultural Analysis, Spring 2022

Sengupta, Ritam and Manish Jha. “Introduction: The state in/of Data Centres in India” in Data Centres as Infrastructure: Frontiers of digital governance in contemporary India’, eds. Manish Jha and Ritam Sengupta, Orient Blackswan, 2022, pp. 1-38.

Sengupta, Ritam. “Between control and ‘feedback’: Narrating the digitised operations of a ‘captive’ Electricity Data Centre in West Bengal, India”, in Data Centres as Infrastructure: Frontiers of digital governance in contemporary India’, eds. Manish Jha and Ritam Sengupta, Orient Blackswan, 2022, pp. 88-127.

Starosielski, N. 2014. Special sections: Media, hot & cold: The Materiality of Media Heat. International Journal of Communication. Available at: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3298/1268 (accessed 20 June 2015).

Starosielski, Nicole. “Thermocultures of Geological Media.” Cultural Politics 12, no. 3 (2016): 293–309. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3648858.

Tait Lima, M. M., dos Reis Peron, A. E., & Suárez Estrada, M. (2022). Terrestrial politics and body-territory: two concepts to make sense of digital colonialism in Latin America. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 5(1), 1–16. https://www.tandfonline.cxom/doi/full/10.1080/25729861.2022.2090485

Taylor, A.R.E. (2017) “The Technoaesthetics of Data Centre “White Space”” Imaginations Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Location And Dislocation: Global Geographies Of Digital Data https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.LD.8.2.5.  

​​Taylor, A.R.E. 2018. Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry, Failed Architecture, 19 May: https://failedarchitecture.com/failover-architectures-the-infrastructural-excess-of-the-data-centre-industry/ 

Taylor, A.R.E. (2019) “The Data Center as Technological Wilderness” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/data-center-as-techno-wilderness/ 

Taylor, A.R.E. (2021) Standing by for Data Loss: Failure, Preparedness and the Cloud. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organisation, Vol. 21(1): 59-93: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/standing-data-loss-failure-preparedness-and-cloud 

Taylor, A.R.E. (2021) Future-Proof: Bunkered Data Centres and the Selling of Ultra-Secure Cloud Storage. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27: 76-94: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13481 

Valdivia, A. (2024). The supply chain capitalism of AI : a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens. Information, Communication & Society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2420021

Vatanparast, Roxana (2020) “The Infrastructures of the Global Data Economy: Undersea Cables and International Law” Harvard International Law Journal Frontiers https://journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/2020/04/the-infrastructures-of-the-global-data-economy-undersea-cables-and-international-law/ 

Veel, Kristin (2017) “Uncertain Architectures—Performing Shelter and Exposure” ​​Imaginations Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Location and Dislocation: Global Geographies of Digital Data https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29367 

Velkova, Julia (2016) “Data That Warms: Waste Heat, Infrastructural Convergence and the Computation Traffic Commodity.” Big Data & Society 3 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716684144.

Velkova, Julia (2019) “​​Data Centers as Impermanent Infrastructures” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/data-centers-as-impermanent/ 

Upham, P., K. Sovacool, B., & G. Monyei, C. (2022). “Imaginaries on ice: Sociotechnical futures of data centre development in Norway and Iceland.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221126619 

Vonderau, A. 2017. “Telematic Spaces and National Territories: Locating the Cloud in Sweden’s North” Imaginations Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Location And Dislocation: Global Geographies Of Digital Data https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29375 

Vonderau, A. 2019 “Storing Data, Infrastructuring the Air: Thermocultures of the Cloud” Culture Machine Vol 18. The Nature of Data Centers https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/storing-data/ 

Wark, S. 2022. In “The Cloud”: Figuring and Inhabiting Media Milieus. In: Lury, C., Viney, W., Wark, S. (eds) Figure. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-2476-7_3 

Zines

Pasek, Anne. “Getting Into Fights With Data Centers: Or, a Modest Proposal for Reframing the Climate Politics of ICT.” Experimental Methods and Media Lab, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. July 2023. https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/Data%20Center%20Fights_digital.pdf.

Zavala, K. & Odendaal, A. (2020). “Algorithms of Late Capitalism” https://algorithmsoflatecapitalism.tumblr.com/zines

Klodner, M. (2019) “Waterlily Tea workshop zine” https://zenodo.org/record/3271340

Klodner, M. (2020) “Livinglabs Zine - Entrance gallery edition” https://zenodo.org/record/6225591

Klodner, M. & Brabcova, N. (2022) “Digital healing zine” https://zenodo.org/record/8364990

News

Burrington, I. (2015) “How Railroad History Shaped Internet History.” The Atlantic, November 24. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/how-railroad-history-shaped-internet-history/417414     

Burrington, I. (2015a, November 2). The Room Where the Internet Was Born. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/where-was-the-internet-born/413221/

Burrington, I. (2015b, November 4). What People Mean When They Talk About “The Cloud.” The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/what-people-mean-when-they-talk-about-the-cloud/413758/ 

Burrington, I. (2015c, November 9). What’s Important About Underwater Internet Cables. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/submarine-cables/414942/ 

Burrington, I. (2015d, November 12). Where the Cloud Rises From the Sea. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/where-the-cloud-rises-from-the-sea/415236/ 

Burrington, I. (2015e, November 30). Finding Dark Fiber in a Desert Ghost Town. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/dark-fiber-in-ghost-towns/417975/ 

Burrington, I. (2015f, December 8). A Network of Fragments. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/a-network-of-fragments/419469/

Burrington, I. (2015g, December 10). The Secrets of an Abandoned Microwave Tower in Kansas. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-secrets-of-an-abandoned-tower-in-kansas/419727/ 

Burrington, I. (2015h, December 16). The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/there-are-no-clean-clouds/420744/ 

Bosker, B. (2019, November). Why is Everything Getting Louder. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end-of-silence/598366/

Epstein, E. A. (2016, January 5). What Does the Internet Actually Look Like? The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/in-photos-inside-the-internet/422592/

Evans, J. (2016a, August 3). How much water do Apple’s thirsty online services need? Retrieved August 4, 2016, from http://www.computerworld.com/article/3102920/apple-ios/how-much-water-do-apple-s-thirsty-online-services-need.html

Evans, J. (2016b, August 3). How much water do Apple’s thirsty online services need? Retrieved August 4, 2016, from http://www.computerworld.com/article/3102920/apple-ios/how-much-water-do-apple-s-thirsty-online-services-need.html 

Frenzel, Janna and lee wilkins (2024) Open and Closed Software: A Climate Concern. Container Magazine, January 15, 2024: https://containermagazine.co.uk/open-and-closed-software-a-climate-concern/ 

Frenzel, Janna, Tamara Kneese and Benjamin Peters (2023) Labor: How tech worker organizing intersects with climate action. Branch Magazine, Issue 5: https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/labor-how-tech-worker-organizing-intersects-with-climate-action/ 

Glanz, James (2012) “Data barns in a farm town, gobbling power and flexing muscle. The New York Times, Sept 23, 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/data-centers-in-rural-washington-state-gobble-power.html?_r=0 

Glanz, James (2017) “How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes” The New York Times, Sept 18, 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/harvey-irma-internet.html 

Hwang T., Levy K. (2015). ‘The Cloud’ and other dangerous metaphors. Retrieved February 9, 2020, from https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cloud-and-other-dangerous-metaphors/384518/

Kasia, T (2016) “Money Lost to the Cloud: How Data Centers Benefit from State and Local Government Subsidies” http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/16/americas-most-prosperous-companies-get-2-million-job-subsidy-their-data-centers 

Lohr, S. (1209646833). Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds. Retrieved October 19, 2016, from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/data-centers-are-becoming-big-polluters-study-finds/

Machat, Joshua and Otero, Marina 'Why the Digital World Needs Sustainable Architecture: An Interview with Marina Otero, Harvard Design Magazine, April 2023:

https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2023/04/why-the-digital-world-needs-sustainable-architecture-an-interview-with-marina-otero/

Mauro-Flude, Nancy and Akama, Yoko  (2022). A feminist server stack: co-designing feminist web servers to reimagine Internet futures, CoDesign International Journal for Art and Design 18:1, 48-62.

Mayer,Vicki

Full article: This site is a dead end? Employment uncertainties and labor in data centers

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1527476420918831

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231224157

O’Neill, Paul. 2018. On Dublin, Amazon, and the "Secret Region.” 28 November. https://dublininquirer.com/2018/11/28/paul-on-dublin-amazon-and-the-secret-region.

Oremus, W., & Grunbaum, M. (2012, September 24). Big Data’s Dark Side: A Massive, Polluting Drain on the Nation’s Power Supply. Slate. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/24/big_data_pollution_cloud_servers_waste_electricity_on_massive_scale_new_york_times_finds_.html 

Osipian, Margarita. “Architectures to Host the Metaverse: An interview with Marina Otero Verzier,’ The Hmm, November 1, 2022: https://thehmm.nl/architectures-to-host-the-metaverse-an-interview-with-marina-otero-verzier/

Parshley, Lois (2024) “The Unknown Toll of the AI Takeover,” The Lever

https://www.levernews.com/the-unknown-toll-of-the-ai-takeover/

Schaefer, S. (2016). The Real Estate Play On Pokemon GO: Data Centers And Telecom Towers. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2016/08/24/the-real-estate-play-on-pokemon-go/

Thibodeau, P. (2012, August 17). Apple, Facebook put Prineville on the map. Retrieved August 4, 2016, from http://www.computerworld.com/article/2505965/data-center/apple--facebook-put-prineville-on-the-map.html

Verge, J. 2014. “N. Virginia Set to Become Biggest Data Center Market By 2015.” Data Center Knowledge. September 25, 2014.  http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/09/25/n-virginia-set-to-become-biggest-data-center-market-by-2015 

Wittenberg, Ariel. 2025. “‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis”. Politico, 5 June 2025. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582

Zike, H. 2022. “Life Amid the Guizhou Clouds.” Sixth Tone: Fresh Voices From Today’s China. March 17, 2022. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009897/life-amid-the-guizhou-clouds 

Reports

Google’s Eco Failures: An Environmental Investigation Into Alphabet Inc. 2025. Kairos Fellowship 2025. https://noclimateresultsfound.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Kairos_NCRFGoogleReport_FINAL.pdf

Chow, W., Lai, K.P.Y. and Liu, F. (2023) Interim Report: Green FinTech and Data Centres in Singapore, August 2023, Singapore: Singapore Green Finance Centre, https://www.singaporegreenfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Interim-Report-Green-FinTech-and-Data-Centres-in-Singapore-Final.pdf 

Chow, W., Lai, K.P.Y., Liu, F. and Seah, B. (2024) White Paper: Green FinTech and Data Centres in Singapore, April 2024, Singapore: Singapore Green Finance Centre, https://www.singaporegreenfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/White-Paper-Green-FinTech-and-Data-Centres-in-Singapore.pdf 

Cushman & Wakefield. 2016. “Data Centre Risk Index 2016 - Cushman & Wakefield.” Accessed August 10. http://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/research-and-insight/2016/data-centre-risk-index-2016   

Chicago: A Tale of Two Data Center Markets. (2016, August 2). Retrieved from http://datacenterfrontier.com/the-chicago-data-center-market/ 

Google. 2020. “24/7 by 2030:  Realizing a Carbon-Free Future.” Mountain View, California: Google. https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/247-carbon-free-energy.pdf.

Google Data Centres the-economic-impact-of-googles-data-centre-in-belgium-2.pdf. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.copenhageneconomics.com/dyn/resources/Publication/publicationPDF/1/301/1435043322/the-economic-impact-of-googles-data-centre-in-belgium-2.pdf 

Greenpeace. (2010). Make IT Green. Climate Report. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/2010/3/make-it-green-cloud-computing.pdf 

Greenpeace. (2011). Dirty Data. Climate Report.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2011/Cool%20IT/dirty-data-report-greenpeace.pdf 

Greenpeace. (2012). How Clean How Clean is Your Cloud. Climate Report.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2012/iCoal/HowCleanisYourCloud.pdf 

Greenpeace. (2014). Clicking Clean, How Companies are Creating the Green Internet . Climate Report. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/planet3/PDFs/clickingclean.pdf 

Greenpeace. 2019. “Clicking Clean Virginia: The Dirty Energy Powering Data Center Alley.” https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/click-clean-virginia/.

Podcasts, Videos, etc.

This Machine Kills 218. “Ecosystems-as-a-Service (ft. Mél Hogan)” https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/218-ecosystems-as-a-service-ft-mel-hogan 

CBC “557: Data centres in a time of climate crisis” Friday 4 November 2022

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark and https://pca.st/g9421nit 

“Toxic Clouds and Dirty Data” October 10, 2022 (Bridges, Lauren) https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/news-insights/toxic-clouds-and-dirty-data/ 

Container Magazine: “Stream if you wanna die faster”  https://containermagazine.co.uk/stream-if-you-wanna-die-faster-2/ 

“The Data Center Industrial Complex” DCIC Ep.1 - People, Imagination and Concrete (2019); DCIC Ep.2 - Faceless Suit People (2020); DCIC Ep.3 (2021) (eds. Hogan, Mél and Sean Willett ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?ab_channel=EnvironmentalMediaLab&list=PLx7HtJGIlJ0HUvFkUpYxJwZEExpVNQAS1&v=TuIbZiZR61w 

Monroe, Dwayne “How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet” Tech Won’t Save Us

https://techwontsave.us/episode/125_how_the_cloud_reshaped_the_internet_w_dwayne_monroe 

Butler, Samuel “The Internet Can Run Without Data Centers”
https://x.com/sambutlerUS/status/1806391007816057019

Acid Horizon-”Data is Dead Labour” https://youtu.be/kr3tE0D7UhI?si=lRGttBrbX8yJZs0J

Acid Horizon-”Resisting AI with Dan McQuillan” https://youtu.be/4qD64kA0-SI?si=n-npmicv3M3QQ8q-

Boxi Wu, Jenna Ruddock, Alix Dunn, “Big Dirty Data Centers,” Computer Says Maybe (2024)

https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/net-0-big-dirty-data-centres

“‘Everyone do a data center story’ with Karen Hao,” power on, power off (2024)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4t7WMcM4sZVFNJxAZW7rdm?si=hsf4-iMXTNygujVF7mqX5g

“Data Centres” The Boring Talks (2020) https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LWjSBQJFL9EHEGnOqyNA0?si=b0tCN99uSpGM9rAAWFJDIg 

“Michael Kibedi – Human Decentred Design” The Conference (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRdWM6abTCY 

Art

Pali Meursault: Datascape. Artkillart. (2007)

Matthieu Kavyrchine: Câbles (2007-2008)

YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji and Graham Harwood): Coal Fired Computers (2010)

Marloes de Valk, Aymeric Mansoux and Dave Griffiths: Naked on Pluto (2010)

Steve Rowell: Networked Nation: The Landscape of the Internet in America (2013)

Karin Fister and Iztok Fister Jr.: Plant-based digital data storage? (2013)

Femke Snelting: Feminist Servers (2013)

Matt Parker: The Cloud is More Than Air and Water (2014)

Matt Parker: Turbulence in the Chamber (2014)

Yuri Pattison: colocation, time displacement (2014)

Timo Arnall: Internet Machine (2014)

Julie Freeman: We Need Us (2014)

Julie Freeman: Allusive Protocols (prototypes) (2023)

Kin, cell_less: We Are Not Target Practice (2022)

Evan Roth: Landscape with a Ruin (2014-2017)

Nancy Mauro-Flude Divination A Romantic Mutiny in a Maelstrom of Data (2016)

Amber Frid-Jimenez, Ben Dalton, Joe Dahmen, Tim Waters: The New Cloud Atlas (2015)

Fernando Godoy: The remote series II: Cu (2015)

Nicole Starosielski, Erik Loyer, Shane Brennan and Erik Loyer: Surfacing (2015)

John Gerrard: Farm (Pryor Creek, Oklahoma) (2015)

Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon: World Brain (2015)

Kynan Tan: Polymorphism (Data Centre Simulation) (2015)

Francis Hunger: Database Derivé (2015)

Tim Exile: RemixIT: Man, Machine, and Sound video with IBM (2016)

Emma Charles: White Mountain (2016)

Ryan S. Jeffery and Boaz Levin: All That is Solid Melts into Data (2016)

Ingrid Burrington: Networks Of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide To Urban Internet Infrastructure (2016)

Mick Jongeling: The Cloud Decoded (2016)

Mick Jongeling: Twittersong (2016)

Matt Parker: The People’s Cloud (2017)

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli: Data Architectures (2017)

James Bridle: Citizen Ex Installation (2017)

Kyriaki Goni: Aegean Datahaven (2017)

J.R. Carpenter: The Gathering Cloud (2017)

Sam Kidel: Silicon Ear (2018)

Francis Hunger: Databody (2018)

Grow Your Own Cloud (Cyrus Clarke, Monika Seyfried): Data Centre Flower Shop (2018)

Ivar Veermäe: The Flood (2018-2019)

Niels Schrader: Acid Clouds (2019)

IOCOSE NoTube (2019)

Paul O'Neill: A Guided Tour of Dublin's Internet Infrastructure (2019)

Samir Bhowmik: Circuit Breaker (2019)

Eva & Franco Mattes: Personal Photographs (2019)

Misho Antadze: The Harvest (2019)

Kirk Gordon: The Weight of the Cloud (2019)

Mario Santamaría: Cloudplexity (2019)

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Cloud Display/Monitor de Nubes (2019)

Grow Your Own Cloud (Cyrus Clarke, Monika Seyfried, Jeff Nivala): Data Garden (2020)

Gabi Ivens, Joana Moll & Michelle Thorne: The Museum of Fossilized Internet (2020)

Maya Indira Ganesh and Johannes Bruder. Cloud Cosmogram. (2019)

James Bridle: Under the Cloud (2020)

Paul Dolan: The Cloud in the Sea (2020)

Zane Griffin Talley Cooper: Alchemical Infrastructures: Making Blockchain in Iceland (2020)

Mario Santamaría: Unfixed Infrastructures and Rabbit Holes (2020)

Kyriaki Goni: Data Garden (2020)

Simon Denny: Mine (2020) https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/340636/simon-dennymine/ 

Paul O'Neill: Greetings From… (2020)

Alex Tyson and Saleem Ali: Material Zoom - The Hidden Elements of Working from Home Amidst COVID (2020)

Jessie Dolliver and Philip Punch: ‘Irish Data Centres: An Introduction by Not Here, Not Anywhere’ documentary for Dublin Digital Radio (2020)

Jeroen van Loon: Permanent Data (2020)

Ali Fard: grounding.cloud (2020)

Michal Klodner et al. Leaf node9 field research server (2020-)

Annex (Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster, and Fiona McDermott): Entanglement (2020-2021)

Mario Santamaría: Internet Tour (2018-2022)

Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano: UNDERWORLD / INFRAMUNDO (2021)

Sarah Cashman, Michela Ledwidge and Brett Neilson: Data Farms Sonification: An Experiment in Data Modelling and Spatial Audio (2021)

Thomas Dekeyser, Andrew Culp: Machines in Flames (2022; 49min)

Iris Long, He Zike: Under the Cloud (2021)

Marina Otero Verzier: Computational Compost (2023)

César Escudero Andaluz: A definitively unfinished AI (2021)

César Escudero Andaluz: F.U.C.K-ID (2017)

César Escudero Andaluz: Inter-fight (2015)

Martín Nadal & César Escudero Andaluz: Bittercoin, the worst miner ever (2016)

Ignacio Acosta: From Mars to Venus: Activism of the Future (2023)

April Barrett: Hot Data (2024), part of Design Researchers in Residence 2023/24

New Silk Roads is a series of essays on e-flux, in collaboration with the exhibition “The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. Contemporary Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) in Antwerp.

Zhou Tao: The Axis of Big Data (2024)

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Tab 3