The cloud is an ethereal world of convenience and freedom. A place where memories and messages live nowhere and everywhere. But on the ground, sprawling server farms power our online world - while plundering our physical one. Delving into the labyrinthine industry of data centres that are now multiplying at an alarming rate, Hyperscale is an urgent exposé of the ruinous physical infrastructure of the digital age. In the race to meet the AI revolution, tech overlords are waging a resource war as they trade our future for their profit. Marx unmasks a civilisational time bomb in the making with razor-sharp reporting and analysis to show that the greatest threat is not the spectre of AI, but a global disaster that has already begun.

Praise for Road to Nowhere: Marx's invaluable book explains how and why big tech's utopian transit projects crashed and burned and what the alternative might look like -- Brian Merchant, author of The One Device
Sharply rendered, compelling, and illuminating * Protean Magazine *
Marx [delivers] an astute critique of Silicon Valley and compelling vision of a world where technology is instead used to deliver social good -- Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley
Marx unmasks Silicon Valley's place in the broader crisis of capital, and the social, economic and ecological damage it does * The Ecologist *

Paris Marx is a technology critic, author, podcaster and international speaker. He has published in Wired, TIME, NBC News and CBC News, among others and his award-winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast has 25,000 listeners per episode. Paris earned a Master's degree in urban geography from McGill University, researching Silicon Valley's efforts to transform how we move. Hyperscale is Marx's second book and he is based in Canada.