Drawing on concepts in environmental history, this project surveys the multiple ways in which humans, environment, and information technology have been in interaction over the past several centuries, from the lithium mines in post-colonial South America to "server farms" in the rural Pacific Northwest to the "computer graveyards" outside Agbogbloshie, Ghana. The goal is to ground the history of information technology in the material world by focusing on the relationship between "computing power" and more traditional processes of resource extraction, exchange, management, and consumption.