Fanny Lopez & Cécile Diguet 
Digital Conquest [EPUB ebook] 
Spatiality, Energy and the Data Centre

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In an era of exponential digital growth, the physical impact of data flows is reshaping our cities and energy infrastructures.

This book uncovers the hidden world of data centres, from vast complexes in Virginia to digital suburbs in Paris and innovative facilities in Sweden. Through twenty insightful case studies from Europe and the US, it reveals how these often-overlooked infrastructures influence urban change and energy consumption.

Written for readers interested in urban planning, sustainability and technology, this book sparks a vital dialogue on sustainable futures and provides crucial insights to help shape policies concerning digital and energy landscapes.

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Table des matières

Introduction

I. The Smart City at Half-mast: Storing Data to Counter Crises

Chapter 1. Modeling degrowth: the utopia of the informational and communicational city

Chapter 2. The Internet infrastructure: from dispersion to centralization

Chapter 3. An infrastructure without architecture?

Chapter 4. Scales, typologies and siting strategies of data centers


II. A globalized territorial continuum

Chapter 1. In the dense city

Chapter 2. In urban outskirts, growing digital zones

Chapter 3. Isolated in rural zones

Chapter 4. Growth, acceleration and digital productivism


III. Energy disturbances and conflicts of use

Chapter 1. Rising electricity consumption and territorial destabilization

Chapter 2. Île-de-France in quest of a strategy

Chapter 3. Infrastructural redundancies and difficult pooling

Chapter 4. The Dutch and Swedish examples: integrated urban approaches


IV. Another digital: rethinking the network and its infrastructures

Chapter 1. Cyberattacks and political intrusions: states seeking independence

Chapter 2. The peer-to-peer solution: organizing a system distributed among equals

Chapter 3. Self-management and technological sovereignty: the decentralized digital infrastructures

Chapter 4. Resilience and inclusion: systems faced with disconnection

Chapter 5. The ecological footprint of alternative digital infrastructures


V. Alternative futures: three possible digital worlds


Conclusion

A propos de l’auteur

Cécile Diguet is Director of Studio Degel.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781529252170 ● Maison d’édition Bristol University Press ● Lieu Bristol ● Pays GB ● Publié 2025 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 10198235 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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