As long as the internet works, who cares where it came from (or at what cost - and there is a considerable cost)? Instagram photos, traffic data, movies streamed on Netflix... All this and much more is stored on data clouds. But where are they? The answer lies in a relatively new emerging typology whose energy demands are equivalent to those of a medium-sized city.

Data centers require a never-ending supply of unimaginable energy. Along with the enormous amount of energy involved, so does their operation. The servers that fill entire building volumes generate unwanted heat, much of which is not processed in any way. On the contrary, the rooms must be air-conditioned for additional consumption. Demand for data centres is rising exponentially and has multiplied since 2012. The question arises as to whether the surplus heat cannot be further used or integrated into the city's infrastructure.

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To compensate for the enormous consumption, we could confront the ever-present issue of housing. In Brno alone, there are over 1,670 homeless people, and especially in sub-zero temperatures, the consequences can be fatal. We propose a structure of prefabricated polycarbonate capsules using the excess heat generated by the servers to provide shelter for the homeless, especially during the winter months. The funding model could work on the sense of compensating for the use of clouds by large companies. Their rental would be conditional on the sponsorship of part of the company. The direct confrontation is meant to initiate a discourse on the growing disparities between the different segments of the population and our ever-increasing demands. The temporary structure is snapped into the massive supporting structure of the data centers. It is designed for short-term emergency stays, and its character corresponds to that. The polycarbonate capsules, accessible by means of porous staircases, make use of the accumulated heat in the server rooms, which is brought to them by means of air conditioning. Data centers are a typologically specific group; due to their occupancy, windows or any illuminating openings are undesirable, and the façade is thus a monolithic surface that we perceive as a starting point. o We are not creating a ”second skin” - a second façade - but we are building on an empty surface that has no limitations. Our first skin is an organic envelope, which we articulate into smaller units that are more contextual to their surroundings. Our conceptual project seeks to outline the ethical-ecological issues of enormous data centers, the widening disparities between different segments of the population, and the ever-growing demand for technology and its infrastructure.