Snøhetta Designs Sustainable Data Center as "The Body and Brain of Future Cities"
Snøhetta has released images of its proposed sustainable data center concept, named ?The Spark.? The project seeks to address the typical high-energy-consuming typology of the data center, transforming it into an ?energy-producing resource for communities to generate their own power.?
Courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes
Snøhetta has released images of its proposed sustainable data center concept, named ?The Spark.? The project seeks to address the typical high-energy-consuming typology of the data center, transforming it into an ?energy-producing resource for communities to generate their own power.?The proposal is adaptable for a wide range of contexts and can be scaled for any location around the world, fueling connected cities with energy from the center?s excess heat.
Courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes
The Spark has been designed in response to the exponential growth in global digital data use, with the world?s data storage demands due to reach 44 zettabytes (that?s 21 zeroes) by 2020. Although considered to be floating in ?the cloud,? in reality this data is housed in a global network of energy-guzzling data centers, often built in secure isolation from the urban environment, while connected to cities via a network of fiber optic cables.
Courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes
The Spark reimagines the data center typology as an integral community-orientated part of the ?Power City,? energy-positive cities which produce more energy th...
Courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes
Snøhetta has released images of its proposed sustainable data center concept, named ?The Spark.? The project seeks to address the typical high-energy-consuming typology of the data center, transforming it into an ?energy-producing resource for communities to generate their own power.?The proposal is adaptable for a wide range of contexts and can be scaled for any location around the world, fueling connected cities with energy from the center?s excess heat.
Courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes
The Spark has been designed in response to the exponential growth in global digital data use, with the world?s data storage demands due to reach 44 zettabytes (that?s 21 zeroes) by 2020. Although considered to be floating in ?the cloud,? in reality this data is housed in a global network of energy-guzzling data centers, often built in secure isolation from the urban environment, while connected to cities via a network of fiber optic cables.
Courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes
The Spark reimagines the data center typology as an integral community-orientated part of the ?Power City,? energy-positive cities which produce more energy th...
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