Morphologies
the types of data storage
This chapter discusses the various methods of containing internet data
types of data centers
Enterprise Data Center
Enterprise Data Centers Location & Infrastructure: Usually on-premises, requiring dedicated ...
Colocation Data Centers
Equinix Data Center in Dallas, Texas Colocation Data Centers Facilities where multiple orga...
Cloud Data Centers
Cloud Data Centers Massively scalable, operated by cloud providers, supporting cloud service...
Hyperscale Data Centers
Hyperscale Data Centers Exceptionally large facilities designed to serve thousands or millio...
Edge Data Centers
Edge data center in Arlington, Texas Edge Data Centers A small-scale data center situated a...
Modular Data Centers
Modular Data Centers A modular data center is a portable, prefabricated data center system m...
The Data Center Field Guide
Cloud Merchant, Newark, NJ
Here, we witness the Post-Industrial Hermit Crab inhabiting the discarded shell of a bygone era...
The Post Industrial Hermit Crab
Switch Data Centers, Reno, NV
The facade is a continuous, solid wall, broken only by a slight impression of the rhythmic plac...
A Sentinel in a Curtain of Denial
Meta, Springfield, NE
These bi-winged creatures are often found in rural areas, where there is no need to hide. A...
Meta-Phased Protazoa
Amazon Web Services, Ashburn VA
This form that loves masks is a shy giant in a world of suburban homes, forests, and office pa...
The Tetra-Visaged Brigand
Data Bank Data Services, Dallas, TX
Often, enterprise or colocation centers, sophisticates hide within the facade of an older bui...
Symbioses of Sophisticates
Equinix Data Center, Ashburn, VA
A Hooded Mage
Digital Realty, Ashburn, VA
The data center, as revealed in its plan, is a creature of almost deliberate indifference, a te...
Languid Leviathan
Mapping Ashburn: infrastructural park
Featuring Greebles, Kitbashing, Suburbia, Sprawl, and the Archipelago
Ashburn, Va
Ashburn, Virginia—Data Center Alley—hosts over 275 data centers carrying about 70% of global inte...
By the Dulles Airport
Before delving into the specifics of this map, it is crucial to foreground its relationship to ...
Parameter/Border/Extension
The Tetra-Visaged Brigand Amazon Cloud Through the acts of merging and morphing, the connecti...
Parameter/Border/Extension
By Corporation
DIGITAL REALTY: Territorial Expansion
Territorial Expansion Digital Realty’s Ashburn campus spans ~98 acres, strategically assembled o...
Concluding Remarks
After mapping the typologies in Ashburn, Virginia, we began to speculate on how these hybrid form...