April Global Design Series
Schedule
Wed Apr 08 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
AIA Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA
About this Event
1 HSW Pending
We are delighted to invite you to the fifth session of our “Global Design Series”, a continuous series of inspiring discussions.
Data Centers and AI Infrastructure Boom: Conscientious Development
About the Event
Behind exciting new AI architectural visualization tools lie a quieter but important discussion for the architecture industry: the infrastructure needed to power them. Please join us on April 8th for a presentation and subsequent small group discussion about data centers built to support our AI usage, and their impact on the built environment and local communities.
The discussion will be prefaced with a presentation by Erika Kessler putting New Albany, Ohio under a spotlight, a small town technological hotspot boasting big names such as Meta, Google, and Amazon. Using this case study, we will explore how rapid technological developments can reshape a sense of place. Together we will consider how Santa Barbara can proactively establish a strategy to embrace technological advancements in alignment with our community values and explore what our role is as designers and stewards of our community to guide these changes.
Where is it happening?
AIA Santa Barbara, 229 East Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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