Land and water

Brett Neilson; Ned Rossiter

Land and water

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

What is at stake in naming data centres as data farms? These installations are essentially hangars packed with computers. They congregate servers, switches and wires that facilitate the storage, processing and transmission of data in high volumes and at fast speeds. Data centres present a scale of operations, potentially planetary in scope, that intensifies and multiplies the productive and extractive capacities of digital technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Data Farms: Circuits, Labour, Territory
Editors	Tsvetelina Hristova, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Open Humanities Press
Pages	004-13
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781785421266
Publication status	Published - 2022

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