Data Centers of the Future Could Be Towering Skyscrapers
Data midpoint are usually immense , cavernous warehouse - like spaces ram full of computers and cooling systems . But a pair of Italian designer has imagined a sustainable alternative that would coalesce server farms with skyscrapers . Marco Merletti and Valeria Mercuri have sketched out a vision for what they call the Data Tower . And if the name does n’t evoke feelings of sci - fi hereafter , then the images sure as shooting do : Neat , gleaming silver structures make up the interior space , while the external sight imagine it hulk over the glacial landscape painting of Iceland ....