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(Archive) The Data Garden

The world's first plant based data centre

This project was part of DDW 2020
The Data Garden — © Grow Your Own Cloud

The Data Garden is carbon negative data infrastructure to store and retrieve digital data from the DNA of plants. In contrast to the carbon emitting digital data cloud, The Data Garden works with data nature’s way, through organisms that create their own energy and absorb CO2.

Working with nature to alleviate the threat of ‘data warming‘, the Data Garden invites visitors to experience a new materiality around data, and explore a world in which data storage is truly green, and exists as an accessible public resource that is shar

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The Data Garden — © Grow Your Own Cloud

The Data Garden - reading the data — © Grow Your Own Cloud

The Data Garden - caring for data hosts — © Grow Your Own Cloud

The Data Garden - exhibition posters