In contrast with the perception that the Web is a territory without spatial coordinates in which geography is not important, the reality is that the Internet de- pends on tangible facilities, whose location is very carefully chosen. The ports in global information routes – data centers, Internet Exchanges, colocation centers – have deliberately sought anonymity for a long time, rarely announcing their real identity to the outside world. Today, their status as icons of a rising power means they are acquiring a new form of monumentality.

Data Centers: Telehouse West, 60 Hudson Street, Digital Reality Trust, Digital Beijing Building, Pionen Banhof, NSA Utah Data Center, Citi Data Center Frankfurt, Yahoo, Google Hamina, Alcalá Data Center Telefónica, Intel, NAP of the Americas, eBay Project Mercury, Apple Maiden, IBM, Deltalis Radix Cloud, Facebook Lulea, 375 Pearl Street Sabey, Cisco, IO.