The concept is designed to be located in Iceland for several reasons: first, the cooler temperatures in Iceland help to keep the tower naturally cool. Iceland is also conveniently located between Europe and the US – two major consumers of data. The country is also abundant in green energy, so the data center could be 100% powered by sustainable sources.
According to the designers, “Our project is a vision of how could it be a future green data center located in Iceland. A data center is often a large industrial building without a significant architectural connotation, a big anonymous container. The main issue of our project is to investigate a new morphological solution that could represent both the complexity and the importance of the building into which we keep our data. Above all, we conceive the data center’s configuration in order to maximize the use of the available renewable energies and also to allow the re-use in a sustainable way.”
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The tower is hollow, with all components fastened to the exterior. The hollow interior helps cooling air work more effectively and allows space for maintenance. Heated air is either expelled out of the top of the cylinder, like a chimney, or re-used by the laboratories and greenhouses located in the basement space.
The concept won third place in the 2016 eVolo Skyscraper competition. The design was created by Valeria Mercuri, Marco Merletti.
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