This book, accompanying the exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TUM opening in October, edited by Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Damjan Kokalevski, and Andres Lepik investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world.

Data may appear immaterial, but it relies on extensive global networks: the extraction of raw materials, the deployment of thousands of undersea cables, and an exponentially growing number of energy-intensive data centers. While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they truly do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labor conditions—realms so often rooted in (neo)colonial structures of exploitation.