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Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires

byParis Marx

Paris Marx examines the physical infrastructure behind seemingly weightless digital services. Following the expansion of enormous data centers, he investigates the demands that cloud computing, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence place on electricity, water, and local communities. The book connects the commercial ambitions of technology companies with the environmental and social costs borne by people living near their facilities. Marx also reports on residents and movements resisting these developments, asking who benefits from the drive for ever greater computing capacity and what a more publicly accountable technological future could look like.

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Publication date

2026-10-20

Format

Hardcover

Pages

320

ISBN

9798217048526