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The building is an off grid nuclear powered data centre and community designed to minimise energy waste through circular economy. The programme imagines a future where an independent environmental organisation counts and assigns carbon within a free market.
An investigation followed into how the energy that is typically wasted can be conserved, this resulted in uses for the two heat types coming from the battery and server racks. High temperature heat from the nuclear battery has the capacity to melt recycled plastics into useful construction elements. Low temperature heat from the server racks can be used to heat the domestic spaces.
Other than reusing energy the facility should minimise its impact on the environment and promote more sustainable practices. Therefore, an extended part of the program is a factory that uses the quarried granite from Lundy Island for prestressed structures that are more sustainable than their concrete equivalents.
Each server room uses 1MW of power. This electricity is transferred into low temperature heat by computers, which is then either recycled for domestic heating or exhausted. The translucent plastic shell units are designed to work as heated cavities.
There are 12 engineers, a biblical number, living on the site and working to run the data centre and working to protect the Earth by counting the world's carbon.
The heat is funnelled with an essential system of ducts, which are partially used to heat the spaces, and the rest is exhausted. The server rooms are designed with the hot and cold aisle system for efficient servicing.
The domestic spaces are held up by inclined prestressed granite columns, stayed in the horizontal axes by cables. These columns connect at a pin joint on the steel waffle slab that provides rigidity and saves on material.
The project's multiple sustainable elements are synthesised into a single cohesive building.