The the main project I lead:
#Digital urban development - How large digital corporations [like #Amazon #Google #Microsoft] shape the field of urban governance (DIGI-GOV)"

Summary here: https://tinyurl.com/y58cc8b7
Funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund

Cities include: #Luxembourg #Amsterdam #Seattle #WashingtonDC #Toronto #Kyiv

Please connect with us!

#urbanplanning #urbangovernance #urbanpolitics #urbangeography

From me/Bast/Madron/Syrus "#Mapping the #clouds: the matter of #datacenters"

https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2088304
(#OpenAccess).

From Abstract: 1, hyperscale data center owners are building near large waterways ... a shift in location preferences. 2, data centers stress ... administrations, financing, and ... #upstream resources ... 3, data center development is state-led. 4, ...competition for data center industries unfolds in a multi-level governance context.

#Maps of #Seattle #Amsterdam #Luxembourg

A major event for me this year was organising the 30th annual conference of the International Network of #Urban #Research and Action in #Luxembourg (#INURA).

Here is a short piece my team and I put together afterwards: https://www.brennpunkt.lu/article/reflecting-on-research-and-activism-in-times-of-uncertainty-and-crisis-the-30th-anniversary-conference-of-inura-in-luxembourg/
(#Openaccess)

More info at: https://inuraluxembourg.blogspot.com
and
www.inura.org

Bast/Carr/Madron/Syrus 2022. "Four reasons why data centers matter, five implications of their social spatial distribution, one graphic to visualize them" #EnvironmentandPlanningA

open access here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X211069139

Spoiler: Circles are #energyuse; Triangles are #Amazon #datacentres where #energyconsumption is unknown.