Elsewhere, datacentres such as Bahnhof Pionen White Mountain in Stockholm inhabit repurposed Cold War bunkers. But we call interconnected computers ‘server farms’, Maak points out, ‘as if a server rack were something like a digital cow’. Consider Le Marché et Les Abattoirs de La Villette, the livestock market and public butchery on the outskirts of a rapidly changing, post-Haussmann Paris. Abattoirs de La Villette, Paris, 1922. Ironically, by storing records of internet users’ queries and purchases, datacentres allow private companies to look at us.