The text 'The Rack, the Worker and the Submarine' is the result from reflecting the visit to a data centre in Geneva that took place in the framework of the seminar-work with students of the CCC Program, HEAD Geneva. It touches upon questions towards the archive / archiving processes, the question of knowledge, decentralisation, geospatial constellations and data as capital. It has been commissioned by Vera Tollmann of RCPP, Berlin as part of the exhibition Hailweed at autoitalia, London, June-July 2016