Mondstat and Saltzman, How data centers have come to matter. Example from Amsterdam of the physical impacts of the proliferation of data centers, esp. around energy needs. Some interesting parallels to the political economy of warehouses that I’ve been working on. doi.org/10.1111/1468... OA (8/100)
Graphic reading "2026-2027 Reynolds Travel Grant for the Transportation Library" with an image of a skyline incorporating buildings from around the world, from a 1979 TWA menu.
Applications are now open for the Reynolds Travel Grant for the Transportation Library! Learn more and apply here:
www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co...
Image: TWA Menu, 1979. Robert M. Behr Menu Collection.
TFW you nominate someone very deserving of an award and they get it. 😊
This is such a fascinating tangle. Joliet has to reduce its 29% water loss due to leaky pipes to get permission to use Lake Michigan water by 2030--but the unnamed data center is in such a hurry that they have to use aquifer water AND they can't take the time to build new renewable energy sources.
Job opportunity! 🚨
Curator or Associate Curator of Maps and Geography @bplmaps.bsky.social
#maps #jobadvert #geography
My last name is so unusual because my grandfather made it up. As a Ciezadlo, he felt he was being discriminated against in the Chicago job market of the 1940s, so he Americanized it to Cidell.
The only reason we are alive to debate this is because Stanislav Petrov decided not to trust a computer.
Saving this one for reasons.
A wooden building with a blue post office box in front and handpainted wooden signs with the mileage to different locations.
How long does the exhibit run?
A one-story brick building with a white portico; there are two trees in front that partially block the building, but it reads "United States Post Office" across the portico. Two cars are diagonally parked out front, and there's small red, white, and blue bunting below one of the building's windows.
#snowmobilities
The post office I grew up with. ❤️
That tendency unfortunately holds among some reviewers, too.
@raportelli.bsky.social
Welp.
I hadn’t, so thank you!
#snowmobilities
I'm one of the rare people who *lost* 15 pounds when they started college, in large part because I moved from an outer suburb to Chicago and started walking everywhere. (I also no longer had my part-time job at Baskin-Robbins, but that's a different story.)
In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
For Chambana and other Illinois people:
My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
W. Lin, Micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service. Really interesting piece on how automation transferring work at the airport to passengers (e.g., self check-in) creates new kinds of work for airport employees, esp. more caring and mobile forms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... (7/100)
Ok, these are the best valentines I’ve seen so far. Sorry, Amtrak and CTA.
Delmelle et al., Women in transport geography. Analysis of journal pubs by gender: women more likely to publish on mobility, school travel, gender, commuting, cycling. Great demonstration of how diverse scholars means a wider range of scholarship. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... OA (6/100)
Encouraging our Chicago allies who survived Operation Midway Blitz to please post here about that post-”drawdown.” IIRC heat died down but ICE is back doing same shady shit only shadier. Celebrate the win (when it actually happens, not just a liar‘s words) but know this is a strategic retreat.
Five classes you took at university:
*A CS course on AI (in 1996) (distributional requirement)
*Collecting (gen ed; kind of an intro to museum studies)
*Swimming (required, but I still can't swim)
*The Four Quartets + The Waste Land (for fun)
*Atmospheric Chemistry (for fun)
Looking at the top 20 (smartasset.com/data-studies...), I see three types of places: 1) big, wealthy outer suburbs 2) big, wealthy suburbs adjacent to a central city 3) medium-sized central cities. No low-cost digital nomad centers, interestingly. Great Trib article on the local economic impacts.
A small, low white building the size of shipping a container sits behind a four-space asphalt parking lot. There's a set of about two dozen cluster boxes in front of the building, and a large "Welcome" sign next to the door. In the background are two water towers, one old and metal with "Purcell" on the tank, and one taller and white with "Missouri American Water" on the tank.
Pretty much every geography class does this.
