Translations:Clouds to Commons: Closing Program/3/en

“Cloud computing” has become the key component of today’s digital landscape. While the image evoked by the term “the Cloud” conjures an immaterial image of data floating through the air without a root or home, it overshadows the material reality of our digital habits. These habits run on deep-sea internet cables, energy guzzling server farms, precious metals mined for a large variety of chips, and more “stuff” that actually makes up what we now call “the Cloud”. To top it all off, the infrastructure that connects computing to everyday reality is largely owned, governed, and designed by big tech corporations that make all their decisions based on profit maximisation.