Open AccessDebesijos plėtra Švedijoje: kritinis žvilgsnis į skaitmeninės ateities megaprojektus
Author(s) -
Asta Vonderau
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lietuvos etnologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2538-6522
pISSN - 1392-4028
DOI - 10.33918/25386522-2130001
Subject(s) - situated , cloud computing , politics , field (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , regional science , sociology , economic geography , political science , geography , computer science , cartography , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , law
Growing the Cloud: Investigating Mega Projects of the Digital Future in SwedenThis paper is situated in the field of anthropological studies of technologies and infrastructures. It focuses on methodological challenges which anthropologistsencounter while studying large-scale technological projects. In investigatingthe social effects of the data centre industry in northern Sweden, the paper describes the global Cloud’s local embededdness, and the local/ global relations which emerge in the course of this new industry’s implementation. It denaturalises imaginaries of scale, and analyses how scales are made and unmade in everyday practices, performed by different actors. The study contributes to our understanding of cross-border technological processes, by regarding scaling as political and governmental practice.Key words: mega projects, data centres, scaling, Sweden, anthropology of infrastructure.