Peter Johnson
OBSCURED BY CLOUDS
In recent years, nearly 90 percent of the world's data has been created, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital consumption, posting growing pressure on planetary energy systems. Global data consumption is accelerating only, yet the infrastructure behind it largely unseen. While often performed as imperial, the cloud is supported by vast physical infrastructures, or systems.
Set in East Iceland, this project speculates on a future in which data becomes the country's primary industry.
Rather than viewing data centers as passive consumers of energy, the project explorations the potential to generate climate interventions and new forms of public space that engineering with thermal and atmospheric conditions. Waste heat is redirected into algae-based carbon sequestration systems and thermal landscapes, repositioning compilation as a force of planetary restoration.
It prophecies a shift from passive consumption to active engagement, rethinking how we live with the systems we have built.
