4. Streaming against the Environment: Digital Infrastructures, Video Compression, and the Environmental Footprint of Video Streaming

Abstract

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The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter

“…Moreover, the discussion does not question the larger digital infrastructure in which data centers are embedded (Holt and Vonderau, 2015;Masson et al, 2022), nor does it critically address the environmental impact of consumer devices (Jancovic and Keilbach, 2022). Problematically, it supposes that massive data consumption is inevitable.…”