Where Cloud is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data
storage industry, and an inquiry into the relationship between data and
place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data
centers--facilities where large quantities of data is processed and
stored--the book traces the fraught work of siting data's material
manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local
politics, national narratives, and still-open questions of spatial
justice and sovereignty. Doing so, it unsettles techno-utopian ideals of
connectivity and offers a window into what it means to live with our
data, in a place where more and more data now lives.