Maps of data center localizations
Although data centers are unevenly distributed, but it’s intriguing to observe the way they’re located spatially. It’s difficult to find world maps but here are some examples I found interesting, but it’s totally not exhaustive (lots of them are not documented). Also note that any queries on image search engine about data center geography leads to weather-related visualizations (which generally influence energy/water consumption for this infrastructure).
The largest US data-centers (by Nicolas Rapp, data by Dave Drazen at Geo-Tel)
Border Check
Border Check (BC) is a browser extension that maps how your data moves across the internet’s infrastructure while you surf the web. It will show you through which countries and networks you surf to illustrate the physical and political realities of the internet’s infrastructure using free software tools. Click here to see the video.
Yasmine Abbas about “Neo-nomadism”
Note: cloud technology is certainly a technological frame that allows “Neo-nomadism” to take place. If not now its main infrastructure.
Via Lift Conference
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