A burgeoning data centre revolution is shifting from utilitarian sheds to something more architecturally adept, courtesy of some inspiration from ancient Greece, reports Urban Realm.
Urban Realm writes:
Graeme Nicholls Architects has drawn Classical influences for its design of the Cato Hyper-Scale Data Centre in Fife, a giant 600MW data centre for ILI Group near Auchtertool, which has been submitted for planning…
Graeme Nicholls, director of Graeme Nicholls Architects, commented: ‘It has been exciting to work on an emerging building typology of real significance. Data centres are often understood as purely technical buildings, but we saw Cato as an opportunity to give this new infrastructure a clear architectural identity and narrative….
