THE DATA CENTER CANNOT HOLD: DATA COLONIALISM AND THE “NIMBUS PROJECT”
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چکیده
Following the infrastructural turn in media studies with its focus on material and social practices, this paper offers to reexamine contemporary data colonialism by empirically exploring some of most crucial artifacts – centers. Particularly, explores six centers currently built Israel as part "Project Nimbus" a $1.2 billion tender offered Israeli government move computational infrastructure "to cloud". The was won Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud, has drawn considerable attention, both due high-cost technical complexity; attempts these companies' workers curtail tech giants' involvement Israel/Palestine moral grounds. Power differentials are also present within society, intimate governmental will be processed stored foreign US companies. Based thematic analysis local journalistic sources, public officials’ documents, planning authorities winners themselves, we delineate concrete materialization cloud infrastructure. We show that notion is complicated project Nimbus, when lines blur terms whose colonized whom, lands used (and colonized) centers, resources (predominantly electricity water) for their functioning. Thus, more granular understanding colonialism, different actors stakeholders involved creation sustainment emerging global regime.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Selected papers of internet research
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2162-3317']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2022i0.13004