220. The Landlords Who Own the Internet (ft. Dan Greene)
This Machine Kills
English - December 30, 2022 08:37 - 1 hour - 216 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If we want to understand the cloud, then we need to study real estate. We are joined by Dan Greene—from the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies—who has written the premier analysis of who owns the internet. We all know the cloud is a place, but many of us think that place is largely owned by familiar tech giants. Wrong. The actual owners of the bones and pipes of the internet are Real Estate Investment Trusts and, by extension, private equity firms. The stack of landlords goes deeper than we realize.
••• Dan’s twitter: https://twitter.com/Greene_DM
••• Dan’s website: http://dmgreene.net/
••• Dan’s article – Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate http://dmgreene.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/03063127221124943.pdf
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