When we share images, send emails, chat with AI or pay our taxes online we are using the cloud.
What we call “the cloud” is far from a fluffy, placeless mist. It emerges from physical data centres, and their relations to energy, people and places. Data centres are increasing in Sweden due to cheap land, cheap low carbon electricity, a cool climate and good internet connectivity. As the cloud expands in Sweden it creates conflicts and transforms landscapes.
Here, we invite you to explore a small part of the digital cloud, into a data centre and out into the landscapes that power them.
Produced by Flora Mary Bartlett and Julia Velkova as part of the ongoing research project “Megabytes vs Megawatts: Understanding Infrastructural Frictions between Data Centers and Energy Grids for Sustainable Digitalization” at Linköping University. “Where is the Cloud” is open from the 7th May – 31st August 2025 as part of DIGITOPIA at The Museum of Work, Norrköping.
Funding
The exhibition is produced with the support of::
- Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs Foundation
- Program Verifiering för Nyttiggörande (VFN) at Linköping University
- FORTE and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant Agreement no 101004509 through the project “Reimagine ADM”
- Swedish Energy Agency through the project “Municipalities in Tailwind and Head-Wind"
- The Profutura Scientia Program of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond