| Tittel: | Transforming Sufficiently? Data Centers and the Paradoxes of Digital Infrastructure | | Ansvar: | Mads Dahl Gjefsen og Jens Petter Johansen | | Forfatter: | Gjefsen, Mads Dahl  / Johansen, Jens Petter | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | Beta | | Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2023 | | Omfang: | S. 1-21 | | Serie: | Beta ; 1/2023 | | Emneord: | Digitalisering / Vitenskapelig publikasjon | | Innhold: | Abstract
Physical infrastructures such as data centers constitute the material underpinnings of digitalization and are, like emerging digital tools and products, part of the mechanics of digital transformation. Research on data centers could yield insights into digital transformation dynamics and inform emerging normative frameworks for digital sufficiency in support of sustainability. Norway offers a rich case for study, given its ongoing efforts to become a global network hub in step with its digital transformation. We ask: How might a paradox approach a) explain current controversies around Norwegian data centers and b) help situate sociotechnical understandings of infrastructure within emerging ethical frameworks for societal digital transformation? Based on an exploratory study of local, national, and professional media narratives during Europe’s energy crisis in 2022, we analyze digital infrastructure’s attendant contradictions and new uncertainties using a paradox approach. We highlight gaps in, and suggest future research priorities for, normative ethical frameworks for digital sufficiency.
Keywords: digital transformation, digitalization, infrastructure, data centers, paradox, sufficiency, sustainability
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