EP44: Sustainable data center architecture – part II

Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher who in 2022 received Harvard’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She aims to publish the first open-source manual for global data center architecture design, featuring examples of ecological, sustainable, and egalitarian data storage models used in data centers across the world. Marina Otero Verzier’s work is especially urgent at a time when digital-data production is outpacing the scalability of today’s storage solutions, and AI usage is on the rise.

In this episode, Marina Otero Verzier and Mattias Fridström discuss:

• Government involvement in the data center industry 
• New frontiers for data center design, like data centers in space  
• Physical security of data centers
• Measuring data center sustainability
• Quantum computing’s impact on data center design
• The rise of decentralized networks of data centers, using a variety of architectures, complementing the traditional facilities