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Pages: 65
Format: 210x270
Language: EN & EN
Digitalization appears immaterial – as a promise of salvation under the banner of the“Green Deal,”sustainable and future-oriented. Yet it is based on a massive, highlyspecialized built infrastructure: datacenters, server farms, fiber-optic networks, coolingsystems, and security architectures. Behind theseemingly limitless cloud, hermeticbuildings emerge that organize energy, data, and control. The issue“Architecture &Data” examines these new typologies between invisibility and territoriality and askshowarchitecture changes when it is no longer built primarily for human use, but for storage,algorithms, andpermanent availability.
Luxembourg has strategically positioned itself as a European data and cloud locationand is investingspecifically in digital sovereignty. Behind this immaterial promise, ahighly concentrated physicalinfrastructure is taking shape: data centers in industrialzones, secured perimeters, redundant energy andfiber-optic networks. TheLuxembourg focus examines these architectures as built manifestations of anationaldigital strategy and asks how a small state territorially anchors global data flows. Howvisible may orshould this infrastructure be? What architectural language do buildingsdevelop that must guaranteemaximum security, permanent availability, and internationalconnectivity? Luxembourg is considered here asa model case of a nation increasinglymaterializing its economic future in concrete, cooling systems, andbackupinfrastructures.
ISSN 2658-9974
Published with the support of the National Cultural Fund, Luxembourg, and the Œuvre Nationale.
