Vinit Ravishankar
Vinit is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer and editor based between Copenhagen and Berlin; he is presently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on Marxian analyses of the political economy of contemporary technology. He serves on the editorial board for The Left Berlin and the newly-launched Disjunctions Magazine.
Session
This talk is meant to analyse of the political economy of data centre expansions. I diverge from both mainstream narratives of haphazard data-centre construction as useful for digital economies, and critical narratives of data centres as intrinsically domestically harmful. Instead, I describe them as a rational, manageable asset — yet one that is rooted in imperialist extraction.