“As the efficiency of the systems increase, the reliance on non-green, uninteresting cubicle-style data centers will begin to fade.”
This sounds like wishful thinking to me. As our demand for data storage exponentially increases, I’m sure industrial farms of blandly designed, environmentally unfriendly data centers will proliferate across the midwest like suburban housing developments
In their very anonymity, these centers already serve as fitting monuments to a network that purports to be immaterial.
Maybe when Amazon drives all big-box retail out of business, we can fill our vacant shopping markets with data centers.
