On behalf of real estate developer MIRIS and in collaboration Skanska, Asplan Viak and Nokia, Snøhetta has designed The Spark, a sustainable data center concept that fuels connected Power Cities with energy from its excess heat. The collaboration strives to transform this high energy-consuming typology into an energy-producing resource for communities to generate their own power.
«The heat generated by data centers represents a huge untapped potential in terms of energy capture that we wanted to explore further. By efficiently and sustainably exploiting excess energy that would otherwise go to waste, we can use technology to generously support health, recreation and the environment», says Founding Partner at Snøhetta, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen.
The Spark will not only set a new standard for sustainable data centers, but also position data centers as anchors of smart city developments. By powering sports and recreational facilities, The Spark also aims to reintroduce a human touch back into our digitalized and smartphone driven lives, making the very body and mind of a living and breathing city of the future.
The Spark can be adapted to a wide range of contexts, and can be scaled in size and located anywhere in the world.
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