About this episode
Paris Marx is joined by Dwayne Monroe to discuss what it’s like to work in a data center, how the cloud came to hold a dominant position, and the consequences of its control by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Dwayne Monroe is a cloud technologist and aspiring Marxist theorist of technology, with twenty years of experience architecting large-scale computational systems. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at @cloudquistador . Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast ( @techwontsaveus ) and host Paris Marx ( @parismarx ) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon . Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com . Also mentioned in this episode: Dwayne wrote about cloud computing for Logic Magazine. He’s also written about a public cloud and the metaverse on his blog. Amazon’s cloud infrastructure in the eastern United States experienced a major outage in December 2021. Residents in various parts of the world have been questioning the logic of building data centers, including in the United States and New Zealand . In July, the network of Canadian telecom giant Rogers went down , leaving millions without service. Support the show