Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy
<p>Server farms are to the digital world what castles used to be: the seat of power. If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Together with students from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Niklas Maak shows what the future of the most important new building typology of the twenty-first century might look like—and what new collective places a city needs in the age of digitalization.</p>
Authors: Niklas Maak
Contributors: Francesca Bria, Karsten Spengler, Hormazd Vakharia, Aayush Bhaskar, Stuti Maaheshmati Mohapatra, Uma Nerea Kim Gomez, Shivam Chaudhary, Aline Rainer, Golnaz Khosrawani, Raúl Lima
Editors: Lena Kiessler
Project Manager: Dorothee Hahn
Copy Editor: Dawn Michelle d’Atri
Translators: Irene Schaudies
Designer: Neil Holt
Part of: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775750721