| Abstrakt: |
In recent years, Iceland has been positioned as a ‘natural’ site for data storage, thanks to its cool climate and abundant hydroelectric energy. Starting, however, from a string of earthquakes that shook the island in 2021, this article explores the shaky ground on which those claims rest. Taking into account the local impacts of hydropower production in Iceland, and of anthropogenic climate change, to which the global ICT industry contributes, I make a case for considering data’s situated materiality, or its entanglement with particular land forms and earth processes. From this vantage point, the cloud is inseparable from the ground. |
