Digital infrastructures are inseparably linked to material processes. Every action in virtual space depends on physical structures: data centers, cable networks, and server farms require energy and water and rely on scarce raw materials. The extraction of silicon, copper, or neodymium shapes landscapes and leaves traces inscribed deep within geological layers.
These infrastructures not only transform existing landscapes, giving rise to new forms of “nature,” but also demand that landscapes themselves adapt and change in response to technological and material needs. Our lived reality, desires, memories, and demands carry the imprint of these materials. Nature and technology appear less as opposites than as inseparably intertwined poles that shape and permeate each other.
Clouds don't rain here points to the geology of the present, where storage infrastructures and minerals, data flows and sediments, become legible within a shared materiality.
