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Skoða vefinn á ÍslenskuPétur Jónsson
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, placing growing pressure on planetary energy systems. Global data consumption is accelerating rapidly, yet the infrastructures behind it remain largely unseen. While often perceived as immaterial, the cloud is supported by vast physicalinfrastructures—data centers and systems—that consume large amounts of energy, emit waste heat, and contribute significantly to global emissions.
Set in East Iceland, this project speculates on a future in which data becomes the country’s primary industry.
Rather than viewing data centres as passive consumers of energy, the project explores the potential to generate climate interventions and new forms of public space that engage with thermal and atmospheric conditions. Waste heat is redirected into algae-based carbon sequestration systems and thermal landscapes, repositioning computation as a force of planetary restoration.
It proposes a shift from passive consumption to active engagement, rethinking how we live with the systems we have built—revealing what the cloud obscures.
