Abstract

This is a zine that critiques the limits of sustainability efforts and climate anxiety when it comes to big tech and networked digital goods. Instead of worrying endlessly about global numbers and individual consumption, it argues that we should interrogate spatial politics of the data centres that stand behind these systems, and which are provoking a series of local struggles around water, air, noise, and land. It teaches its reader how to use traceroute and IP lookup tools to investigate where their data lives, and to better join the struggles against endless data centre expansion.