Data Center – The Hidden Pollution (Internet, la pollution cachée)
Director: Coline Tison & Laurent Lichtenstein, Color, 53 Minutes, France, 2013, English
Essays, photos, music, bank accounts, confidential files, nowadays, the storage of computer data, whether corporate or private, has been outsourced in datacenters. These are the factories of the 21st Century and they are over 500 000 in the world today. Each click, each request creates unprecedented needs for energy. On our own PC, can we choose to use less polluting routes and datacenters? What “green” solutions can we imagine? And conversely is there a risk to see low-cost datacenters establish in emerging countries such as India or China where environmental regulations are more accommodating?
Special thanks go to Andreas Klempin, Goethe-Institut Bangkok and Klara Räthel, without whose work this series would not have been possible.
The film is part of our series TAKE THE GREEN LINE, inspired by solarise: a sea of all colors is Luftwerk’s site-specific response to the Garfield Park Conservatory’s historic structure and natural collection.
The film program is a cooperation with the Science Film Festival, an initiative by the Goethe-Institut in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa that reaches over 750,000 visitors in 16 countries annually.
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