Territories of Digital Machines
Data Centers, Energy, Land

By (author) Fanny Lopez,Cécile Diguet

ISBN13: 9781529252156

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 31/07/2025

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Description
Introduction I. The Smart City at Half-mast: Storing Data to Counter Crises Chapter 1. Modeling degrowth: the utopia of the informational and communicational city Chapter 2. The Internet infrastructure: from dispersion to centralization Chapter 3. An infrastructure without architecture? Chapter 4. Scales, typologies and siting strategies of data centers II. A globalized territorial continuum Chapter 1. In the dense city Chapter 2. In urban outskirts, growing digital zones Chapter 3. Isolated in rural zones Chapter 4. Growth, acceleration and digital productivism III. Energy disturbances and conflicts of use Chapter 1. Rising electricity consumption and territorial destabilization Chapter 2. Île-de-France in quest of a strategy Chapter 3. Infrastructural redundancies and difficult pooling Chapter 4. The Dutch and Swedish examples: integrated urban approaches IV. Another digital: rethinking the network and its infrastructures Chapter 1. Cyberattacks and political intrusions: states seeking independence Chapter 2. The peer-to-peer solution: organizing a system distributed among equals Chapter 3. Self-management and technological sovereignty: the decentralized digital infrastructures Chapter 4. Resilience and inclusion: systems faced with disconnection Chapter 5. The ecological footprint of alternative digital infrastructures V. Alternative futures: three possible digital worlds Conclusion
  • Impact of science & technology on society
  • Social impact of environmental issues
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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