Saturday, February 19, 2011

Digital Infrastructure by Philip Belesky (part 1)


Images: Philip Belesky

Philip created this plan for server farm integrated with a food producing glasshouse for a proposed development at the Wellington CentrePort site. Excess heat from server farms can be a real problem for global warming; the power consumption from their air-conditioning can be fierce. Proposals for dealing with this excess heat include shifting the 'live' farms around the globe as it turns, so that serving always happens where the planet is naturally coolest.
Philip was always an interesting student. He usually flipped out really intelligent work quickly. I always wanted to see what he could produce if he wasn't multi-tasking so much (see his web design portfolio)- I suspect it could be really fabulous.
I wanted to post this earlier, but I have struggled with the embedded images in the file I have. The layout still is not great, I am afraid.

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