\u2018Power House: the architecture of data centres\u2019 is a London\u00a0exhibition\u00a0(3 November 2021 \u2013 28 February 2022) about a critical and increasingly commonplace type of building, albeit one that remains out of sight for the vast majority of the world\u2019s population. The data centre is now utterly integral to modern society...
‘Power House: the architecture of data centres’ is a new London exhibition exploring the design of these often overlooked, but increasingly commonplace infrastructure buildings
Gak Sejong Project by JUNGLIM Architecture, South Korea: Located in in Sejong City, South Korea, the Gak Sejong project is due for completion in 2023. Commissioned by the country’s leading search engine portal, Naver, the data centre is located in the ‘Sejong Special Self-Governing City’, one of South Korea’s leading smart cities. about a critical and increasingly commonplace type of building, albeit one that remains out of sight for the vast majority of the world’s population.
Contemporary data centre architecture comprises colossal structures, shaped by the need to provide space for thousands of pieces of equipment, together with the security, cooling, and redundancy measures required for smooth, seamless operation. These buildings are also extremely energy intensive; one of the stark statistics cited by the exhibition curators is that ‘a single Bitcoin transaction has the equivalent impact of watching 91,624 hours of YouTube’.
Depending on its scale, a data centre can draw up to a hundred times more power than a comparatively sized office building, which is why ‘lights out’ centres are becoming more popular; remote, dark facilities that can run without any human intervention except for maintenance, to make for more
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