Clouds and Grounds - Data Centers and Planning
(Turner 2020). We assess the dimensions of control and governance , security , integration , development/growth and sustainability in order to showcase the challenges and the relevance of the city-regional [...] high-tech facilities meet the grounded realities of land use planning, energy systems, and spatial development. Data centers cluster in specific places such as Northern Virginia, greater Amsterdam, Dublin or [...] increasingly required to balance the infrastructural demands of data centers with broader urban development goals, such as housing, green spaces, climate mitigation and structural change. Yet, there is limited …
