Virtual Information Infrastructures: The data centre as infrastructurer of natural and epistemic processes (A02)

作为信息基础设施，数据中心有助于形成科学知识生产。作为自然资源和能源的消费者，他们干预自然过程。研究项目A02的人种学研究将大学数据中心的社会技术实践和科学数据实践的相互依赖性研究与从自然资源开采和能源生产到数据中心运营和使用的价值链人种学研究相结合。因此，它回答了自然与知识之间的连续性的理论和经验问题。

As information infrastructures data centres contribute to shaping scientific knowledge production. As consumers of natural resources and energy they intervene into natural processes. The ethnographic study of research project A02 combines research of the interdependency of socio-technical practices in a university data centre and scientific data practices with an ethnography of the value-chain from extraction of natural resources and energy production to the operation and use of the data centre. It thereby answers the theoretical as well as empirical question of the continuity between nature and knowledge.