"When Fact is Stranger than Fiction The impending multi-billion Dollar Data Center Building Boom " 2LU/HSW

"When Fact is Stranger than Fiction"

The impending multi-billion Dollar Data Center Building Boom

2LU/HSW(pending AIA approval)

A presentation and open discussion with:

Tanya H. Van Cott, AIA, Screenwriter | Novelist | NYS Architect

Learning Objectives:

Who is driving this building boom?

Big Tech: and Generative Ai

What we should do about it?

Understand Ai demands: water (and pow

Be aware of alt. existing Water Technology, i.e Atmospheric Water Generation

Where is this happening?

Land use: Not in my backyard! Until it is.

Why access to water is the most important question.

Water as a human right: Infrastructure, supply and demand

How other related technologies will unknowingly impact us all.

LEO satellites debris in our atmosphere: How SpaceX seduced us and paved the path for a new unchecked global space industry.

Tanya will be signing her recently published novel, BANDWIDTH that tackles all of these timely issues and more.

A graduate of Pratt Institute, with a Bachelors of Architecture (Barch) and a Masters of Industrial Design (MID), Tanya has dedicated her career to interdisciplinary design and education. For the past decade she has been interested in the possibility of social change through design, but especially the written word.

Awarded a Presidential Design Achievement Award by the National Endowment for the Arts and Published for innovations in design, Tanya’s writing explores the social implications of existing disruptive technologies making facts about technology accessible and relatable through fictional storytelling. With three novels, a screenplay and two novellas already complete, Bandwidth is her first published novel.

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