Metabotanie — Chlorophyll Loop

Summary

At a time when data centers could reach roughly 945 TWh of annual electricity consumption by 2030, and when cooling alone can account for up to 40% of a data center’s energy use, the work imagines a plant form no longer evolving outside infrastructure, but within its thermal, liquid, and computational flows. The recourse to liquid cooling, whose fluids can transfer heat up to 1,000 times more efficiently than air, becomes here both a fiction of survival and a formal motif. Faced with a world that counts some 391,000 species of vascular plants, an increasing share of them under threat, the image proposes the speculative figure of a flora that persists by mutating, by creolizing itself with the machine. Produced through augmented photography, digital composition, and pigment deposition via a hacked plotter, it gives form to a threshold ecology in which the flower becomes interface, sap becomes circuit, and growth becomes protocol.

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