How data centres produce new topologies of territory and labour

When people hear the term data center architectures they are likely to conjure images of large non-descript box buildings or perhaps of converted manufacturing warehouses. Far less likely will they consider the more opaque and hidden interior network architectures that connect machines inside data centers, even though these topologies are, operationally, much more influential. By paying analytical attention to the forms of power produced and sustained by data centre operations, we seek to extend the debate concerning the rising importance of these facilities in order to consider their implications for labour forces, workers and political struggle.