Fanny Lopez

In an era of exponential digital growth, Digital Conquest by Cécile Diguet and Fanny Lopez demonstrates how data centres are transforming urban landscapes and energy systems. Offering twenty case studies from Europe and the USA, it reveals the hidden impacts of our digital world, making it essential reading for those shaping sustainable futures.

Why must we live in homes and in communities built around a shared grid for our needs? For over a century, creative architects and urbanists have dreamed of self-sufficient living, whether to cut themselves off from society or in preparation for some external threat, be it climate change or nuclear war. Dreams of Disconnection tells the story of this strand...