1 August

Data centres are the focus of another current wave of viral outrage, driven by social media. What I think they mean. We’ve been increasingly living our lives in the ‘cloud’. Our social connections are now global, not just local. That comes at a cost. Material infrastructure is needed to achieve that. Data centres. The cloud has come in to land. Just as our water reservoirs and sewage treatment plants and water filtration plants and roads are the infrastructure of our town and city life, data centres are the infrastructure of our international lives *between* cities and towns.