Hyperscale (Hardback)
Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires
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Award-winning tech critic Paris Marx traces the devastating physical footprints of our digital world
The cloud is an ethereal world of convenience and freedom. A place where memories and messages live nowhere and everywhere. But on the ground, sprawling server farms power our online world - while plundering our physical one.
Delving into the labyrinthine industry of data centres that are now multiplying at an alarming rate, Hyperscale is an urgent exposé of the ruinous physical infrastructure of the digital age. In the race to meet the AI revolution, tech overlords are waging a resource war as they trade our future for their profit.
Marx unmasks a civilisational time bomb in the making with razor-sharp reporting and analysis to show that the greatest threat is not the spectre of AI, but a global disaster that has already begun.
Hyperscale (Ebook)
Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires
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Award-winning tech critic Paris Marx traces the devastating physical footprints of our digital world
The cloud is an ethereal world of convenience and freedom. A place where memories and messages live nowhere and everywhere. But on the ground, sprawling server farms power our online world - while plundering our physical one.
Delving into the labyrinthine industry of data centres that are now multiplying at an alarming rate, Hyperscale is an urgent exposé of the ruinous physical infrastructure of the digital age. In the race to meet the AI revolution, tech overlords are waging a resource war as they trade our future for their profit.
Marx unmasks a civilisational time bomb in the making with razor-sharp reporting and analysis to show that the greatest threat is not the spectre of AI, but a global disaster that has already begun.
Hyperscale (Audiobook)
Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires
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Award-winning tech critic Paris Marx traces the devastating physical footprints of our digital world
The cloud is an ethereal world of convenience and freedom. A place where memories and messages live nowhere and everywhere. But on the ground, sprawling server farms power our online world – while plundering our physical one.
Delving into the labyrinthine industry of data centres that are now multiplying at an alarming rate, Hyperscale is an urgent exposé of the ruinous physical infrastructure of the digital age. In the race to meet the AI revolution, tech overlords are waging a resource war as they trade our future for their profit.
Marx unmasks a civilisational time bomb in the making with razor-sharp reporting and analysis to show that the greatest threat is not the spectre of AI, but a global disaster that has already begun.
Reviews for Hyperscale
Praise for Road to Nowhere:
Marx's invaluable book explains how and why big tech's utopian transit projects crashed and burned and what the alternative might look like
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Brian Merchant, author of The One Device
Protean Magazine
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley
The Ecologist
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a journalist who publishes in Wired, Time, and MIT Technology Review, among other publications. His award winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast has 25,000 listeners per episode, while his Disconnect newsletter has a reach of over 10,000 people who get his updates right in their inbox. Beyond that, he has over 50,000 followers on Twitter/X, and tens of thousands more on Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, and all the rest.