Brick by brick like the structure of a house, they structure all tech you useall networks and cloud systems work of the basis of having a server farm/data centres and its the modern datacentre incorporates back-up power generators, state-of-the-art inert gas fire suppression systems, multiple telecommunications network connections, rack upon rack of quietly humming servers, switches and modems, and the electrical and water supplies required to keep them running under optimal conditions with minimal human presence or interaction.
But the visible architecture of the datacentre, the envelope, has changed little: typical examples are nondescript office buildings with mirrored or shuttered windows, deliberately dull to the point of deflecting unsought attention; or vast, distripark-style groundscrapers of the kind unveiled by Jobs: the size of football fields, but marked with few clues as to their actual functions, the epitome of the big box. Telehouse West’s distinctive, windowless envelope incorporates a “disruptive pattern”, breaking up the monocolour facades with a series of tones based on a monochrome, silver-grey palette, resembling nothing so much as the pixelation of low-resolution imagery: the aesthetic of the network itself.