Introduction Part I: The Smart City at Half-Mast: Storing Data to Counter Crises Chapter 1. Modeling degrowth: the utopia of the informational and communicational city Chapter 2. The Internet infrastructure: from dispersion to centralization Chapter 3. An infrastructure without architecture? Chapter 4. Scales, typologies and siting strategies of data centres Part II: A globalized territorial continuum Chapter 5. In the dense city Chapter 6. In urban outskirts, growing digital zones Chapter 7. Isolated in rural zones Chapter 8.

Growth, acceleration and digital productivism Part III: Energy disturbances and conflicts of use Chapter 9. Rising electricity consumption and territorial destabilization Chapter 10. Île-de-France in quest of a strategy Chapter 11. Infrastructural redundancies and difficult pooling Chapter 12. The Dutch and Swedish examples: integrated urban approaches Part IV. Another digital: rethinking the network and its infrastructures Chapter 13. Cyberattacks and political intrusions: states seeking independence Chapter 14. The peer-to-peer solution: organizing a system distributed among equals Chapter 15.

Self-management and technological sovereignty: the decentralized digital infrastructures Chapter 16. Resilience and inclusion: systems faced with disconnection Chapter 17. The ecological footprint of alternative digital infrastructures Part V. Chapter 18. Alternative futures: three possible digital worlds Conclusion.