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The three of us have been writing an article together called "The Making of Critical Data Center Studies," in which we track its development over the past decades to establish it as a field in its own right. 1 In planning these Five Things about Critical Data Center Studies, we thought carefully about different ways to approach this assignment: was it better to talk about news headlines, or go by new concepts in emergent scholarship, or more effective to draw out important tensions in the field?
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