Publications

Recent publications from the DIESL Lab are listed below. Professor Vili Lehdonvirta’s full list of publications is available on Google Scholar.

Hawkins, Z., Lehdonvirta, V. and Wu, B. (2025). AI Compute Sovereignty: Infrastructure Control Across Territories, Cloud Providers, and Accelerators. Working paper available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5312977
Lehdonvirta, V., Wú, B., & Hawkins, Z. (2025). Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres. Review of International Political Economy, 32(5), 1442–1467. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2025.2489077
Lehdonvirta, V., Wu. B., and Hawkins, Z. (2024) Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe. 7th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. San Jose, CA, October 21-23, 2024.
Ergen, T., Antonucci, L., Arslan, M., Singal, S., Harracá, M., and Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) On Vili Lehdonvirta’s Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control. Socio-Economic Review.
Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MIT Press.
Lehdonvirta, V., Kässi, O., Hjorth, I., Barnard, H., and Graham, M. (2019) The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders. Journal of Management 45(2): 567-599.
Vidan, G. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2019) Mine the gap: Bitcoin and the maintenance of trustlessness. New Media & Society 21(1): 42-59.

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