Server Manifesto

Server Manifesto

Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

Niklas Maak

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Author

Niklas Maak

Editor

Lena Kiessler, Hatje Cantz

Project management

Dorothee Hahn

Copyediting

Dawn Michelle d’Atri

Translations from the German

Irene Schaudies

Graphic design

Neil Holt

Typeface

Arnhem

Production

Vinzenz Geppert, Hatje Cantz

Reproductions

Repromayer, Reutlingen

Paper

Munken Print White Vol 1.5, 90 g/m²

Printing and binding

GRASPO CZ, A.S., Zl.n

© 2022 Hatje Cantz, Berlin,

and the authors

Published by

Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH

Mommsenstraße 27

10629 Berlin

www.hatjecantz.com

A Ganske Publishing Group Company

isbn 978-3-7757-5070-7

isbn 978-3-7757-5072-1 (e-Book)

Printed in the Czech Republic

Co-produced with:

Hochschule für Bildende Künste –Städelschule

Credits

p. 17: Twitter

p. 18: © Google

p. 21: collage: Niklas Maak and Mathilda Hoffmann

p. 23: Google Maps

p. 26: collage: Laetitia Maak

p. 35: photographer: Karro Schumacher © Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (HStAD)

p. 37: photographer: Manfred Vollmer/Süddeutsche Zeitung

p. 38: source: rechentechnik/datenverarbeitung, May 1971

p. 41: © CYBERSYN/Cybernetic Synergy

p. 42 left: © José Balmes

p. 42 right: © Facebook

p. 43 bottom: © Niklas Maak

p. 45: © Jannes Linders

p. 47: courtesy of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, www.bsc.es

p. 48: © schneider+schumacher

p. 50: courtesy of Snøhetta/Plompmozes

p. 62: photographer: Rudolf Kessler, © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Werner-Düttmann-Archiv, no. 11 F, 7/22, © Hans Düttmann, © Katarina Merz

p. 64 top: © Fernando Schapochnik

p. 64 bottom: © Nelson Kon

p. 65: photographer: de Burgh Galwey. Cedric Price fonds Canadian Centre for Architecture © CCA

p. 66: photographer: Uwe Maak, © RPBW, © Centre Pompidou, © Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partner

p. 67: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Konrad-Wachsmann-Archiv, no. 140 F. 14 without photographer, © Ray Wachsmann

pp. 78–79: collage by Niklas Maak and Matilda Hoffmann

pp. 104–111: Drawings, model photography and collage by Niklas Maak and Stefan Sauter

Contents

This Is a Historic Moment

Why We Need New Public Spaces to Experiment with and Reclaim Digital Sovereignty for the People

Francesca Bria

Server Manifesto

Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

Niklas Maak

A New Building Type on the Block: Data Centers and the City

What Are the Greatest Challenges Offered by the Data Center Boom?

Interview with Karsten Spengler

Designs by the Students

of the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main

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