Seeing as we’ve had lots of pictures of ghastly modern-brutalist cubes in The Discourse, recently, I asked an AI for a rendering of the typical Glorious Imperial Data Center.
This was what it came up with.
Not bad, I deem.
(Prompt:
In this image, I want to see the data center reimagined as inspiring, uplifing futurism. Make it magnificent, majestic, the architecture of people Inspired by the Glorious Future! Take inspiration from Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, those most science-fictional and boldly-advancing-civilization-through-technological-wonders of architectural styles! Show me the data center built by people who know they’re making the future and want everyone to know how great it’s going to be! (The one that Ayn Rand and Hugo Gernsback would have looked at and said, yes, this belongs in my world.)
)
Also, you know the fountains are being used as one end of the cooling water cycle. Because obviously.
Needs a light fog coming off the fountains then.
Think there’s enough space to moor a zeppelin to the mast?
I admit I have a much stronger preference for Art Deco than the style the AI went for, but it is at least aesthetically pleasing.