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Datacenter Equinix AM4.
Design (2017): Benthem Crouwel Architects.
In front: Amsterdamsebrug (1957).
Near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
It's actually a shipping container packed with computers and about 5 petabytes of storage. The Bing Map team processes its maps and redestributes them to other datacenters using this datacenter.
A chiller failed, leading to a high ambient temperature, leading to 5 other chillers failing. This is what happens next.
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The Weight of the Cloud
Description
A cinematic documentary-style visual series exploring the hidden physical world behind digital infrastructure. Across storm-darkened rural landscapes, muddy construction sites, substations, server halls, delivery routes, public meetings, and community spaces, the images portray the tension between technological progress and the human, environmental, and territorial realities that support it.
The collection contrasts the clean precision of data centers, power grids, pipelines, and industrial architecture with the rough emotional texture of workers, landowners, engineers, citizens, and younger generations facing a future shaped by energy demand and digital expansion. Dramatic skies, wet roads, heavy machinery, orange safety clothing, reflective surfaces, and muted industrial tones create a realistic atmosphere of uncertainty, scale, and transformation.
This is a visual essay about the cloud becoming visible: not as something weightless, but as concrete, steel, electricity, land, labor, logistics, and public debate.
The images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Here we see Linn setting up Brendan's new firewall. Man, a datacenter is a funky place: many long rows of humming cabinets containing hundreds and hundreds of servers. Yes folks, THIS is the Internet.
One of the funniest spots on the real estate tour was a place with zero air conditioning, cubes stacked tight, and this joyus reminder of Joi's first closet server room. The guy said there was a certain temptation while working on things (notice the angle of the monitor).
(built 2012, see tags for further known data). Op dit werk is een Creative Commons Licentie van toepassing.
Sealand's "datacenter". At a later point there were about 10 more machines and a couple ethernet switches, nothing more. Currently HavenCo's servers are colocated in London.
I have an article in the new issue of ICON magazine on the architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters.
Mentioned: Apple, Google, Facebook, Telehouse West (including interview with the architect, YRM), Andrew Blum, the SYNDC, William Gibson and more.
Article illustrated by the lovely Jack Featherstone.