Facebook Data Center // Ashburn

Overview

Outside of Washington DC, “the majority of the world’s internet traffic passes through the town of Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, home to one of the world's major internet exchanges.” Meta née Facebook built a data center there in 2019. 90% of the building is for the electronics, and in the last 10% they did a lot to make the meatspace pleasant for their employees.

In such a digital environment, an injection of the natural world acts as an agent of balance. This design is collaged together from my gouache paintings of many places I've been, put through the filter of my eyes and brain and hands and paint and paper and computer and projector and eyes and brain and hands and friend and paint again. Smooshed.

Size
88’ x 12’

DOB
December 2019

Clients
Meta
The Mocas Group

Assisted by
Sarah Apple

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Location: 21955 Loudoun County Parkway Ashburn VA 20147