#batmanforlife

1st-2nd May

After my look into Ai art, I had a look into the AI data centres and the surrounding communities being effected. Not only do they have to cope with little to no water, pollution and health risks like asthma, and noise pollution, but also have to have this dystopian Internet city by their doorstep.

So I went onto google earth to have a closer look at these centres. It gave me ideas to not only sketch out these problems or the people and communities but also document and showcase how dystopian the data centres look.

These are some screenshots of reference pictures I found from the documentary which I'm going to use for some sketches and research for showcasing this colossal madness:

A further documentary I watched-

I did find it quite hard to actually find data centres in the USA, but when I did I saw that they are primarily located in places where there is limited water supply, making these commentates suffer further.

This is OpenAI Stargate centre, one of the biggest data centres around Texas.

this is a clearer photo I found of the centre.

I find myself asking why do these governments out these ridiculously massive data centres in places where this is little water anyway? what does the community gain from this besides increasing laziness and and an answer instantly?

From this research, I have ideas to create work based on the dystopian sight of the data centres, for example, collaging, editing, and even Lino prints. Maybe a layered riso print of places where it showcases how strange looking they actually are.

This is an example of what the inside of the data centres look like, and I have made a drawing of this as well.

This week we also went to the pub, to relieve some stress and talk about our development ideas. I went in my batman poncho and matching hat.