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Digital Infrastructure Acquires an Address
· New York time
Democrats and Republicans are opposing data centre development amid a growing US backlash, BBC reporting says. The opposition crosses party lines, bringing the physical expansion behind digital services into local political disputes. A service can be used remotely, but the buildings supporting it have to occupy actual places. National enthusiasm for technology does not remove the need for decisions about particular developments. Agreement against a project also need not mean agreement about technology generally or what should happen instead. The cloud has discovered a less ethereal interface: people asking what is going to happen near them. Unlike a software agreement, the local conversation cannot reliably be completed by putting all the consequential details beneath a button marked accept.
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