CSC Speaker Series: On Clouds and Early Fruiting Trees: Data Centres at Planetary Limits
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This talk explores how data infrastructures might be reimagined within the planet's limits, looking at diverse rhythms, forms of computation, and data ecologies that could attune digital systems to the living world. The talk will be paired with an in-person activity and discussion about data centers, cloud computing, and their impact on the built environment.
Dr. Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher. In 2022 she received Harvard’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. Her winning proposal Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse examines new architecture paradigms for storing data and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today.