Future‐proof: bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra‐secure cloud storage.
Abandoned after the Cold War, nuclear bunkers around the world have found afterlives as ultra‐secure data storage sites for cloud computing providers. The operators of these bunkered data centres capitalize on the spatial, temporal, and material security affordances of their subterranean fortresses,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 27; pp. 76 - 95 |
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