Storing data on the margins: making state and infrastructure in Southwest China

IF 4.2 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-12-10 DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2022.2077125

Darcy Pan

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Examining the emerging data center industry in Guizhou, Southwest China, this article investigates the infrastructure-making processes that are initiated to implement cloud infrastructures, and how they are mobilized to reconfigure Guizhou’s nature. It discusses how these processes have come about in tandem with the expansion of China’s cloud geography, and how they are impacting the region. Contextualizing and historicizing these processes, this article argues that the developing data center industry in Guizhou is part of the broader process of state-building. These processes of implementing cloud infrastructure in Guizhou lead to the co-production of further state legitimation and continued marginalization of Guizhou, thus calling into question the common claim that technology bridges economic disparities and enhances connectivity.

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边缘存储数据：打造中国西南的国家和基础设施

摘要本文考察了中国西南部贵州新兴的数据中心产业，研究了为实施云基础设施而启动的基础设施制造过程，以及如何调动这些过程来重新配置贵州的自然环境。它讨论了这些过程是如何随着中国云地理的扩张而产生的，以及它们如何影响该地区。本文将这些过程背景化和历史化，认为贵州发展数据中心产业是更广泛的国家建设过程的一部分。这些在贵州实施云基础设施的过程导致了贵州进一步的国家合法化和持续的边缘化，从而使人们对技术弥合经济差距和增强互联互通的共同主张产生了质疑。

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Information Communication & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

4.80%

发文量

110

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