This article draws from a critical discourse analysis of Google’s three-year process to gain permission to extract greater amounts of water from an aquifer in South Carolina located near one of its data centers. Through an account of this local conflict by analyzing local news coverage, we participate in ongoing academic research regarding how the conditions of media infrastructures – the otherwise banal and largely taken-for-granted facilities that help technologies like cloud storage and streaming to operate – need to be explored in terms of the particular, local conflicts that arise from major corporations like Google building infrastructure in places like Berkeley County, South Carolina. To advance this research, we offer what we call an agri-cultural approach, which emphasizes how digital culture is formed from conflicts over the relationships between natural resources like water and digital infrastructures like data centers.

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阐明水的基础设施：农业和Google的南卡罗来纳州数据中心

本文来自对Google三年过程的批判性话语分析，该过程旨在获得许可，以从位于其数据中心之一附近的南卡罗来纳州的含水层中提取更多的水。通过分析本地新闻报道来解决这一本地冲突，我们参与了正在进行的学术研究，涉及媒体基础设施的条件（这些设施通常是过时的且已获广泛认可的设施，这些设施可帮助诸如云存储和流技术的运营）我们将针对由Google等大型公司在南卡罗来纳州伯克利县建立基础设施所引起的局部冲突进行探讨。为了推进这项研究，我们提供了一种所谓的农业方法，