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The Buildings That Store the World

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Politics and Government

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The Buildings That Store the World

Data Centres, Cloud, and the New Geography of PowerBy Anita S. Sunde

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The Buildings That Store the World

Length5h 33m

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Enormous concrete buildings sit behind razor wire. They have no windows. They consume as much electricity as a small city. And they hold almost everything that matters in the modern world: medical records, financial transactions, government secrets, private messages, the entirety of the internet's memory. This is the infrastructure that runs the world. Almost nobody who uses it every day understands what it is, where it lives, or who has the legal right to look inside. The Buildings That Store the World traces the full arc of this hidden infrastructure — from the first computer rooms of the 1940s to the AI arms race of the 2020s. It explains the geopolitics of the cloud, the law of data sovereignty, the energy consequences of a world that outsourced its memory to a handful of buildings, and the fragility concealed beneath the architecture of apparent resilience.

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GenreTechnology, Politics and Government

Length5 hrs 33 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 2, 2024

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction

15Part 4

2Overview

16What Data Is and Why It Matters

3Prologue: The Cloud Is a Building

17The Data Embassy

4Part 1

18The Other Internet

5From Machine Rooms to the Web

19The Military Cloud

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6The Wreckage That Built the Cloud

20Part 5

7Part 2

21The New Gold Rush

8The Warehouse Computer

22The Edge

9Where the Cloud Lives

23Part 6

10The Electricity Question

24The Green Data Centre

11Part 3

25The Fragile Cloud

12Amazon's Gamble

26The New Infrastructure of Power

13The Cloud Wars

27Epilogue

14The Internet Runs on Five Companies

28Disclaimer

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