You’re checking into the data centre. Past the guards. Past the scanners. It’s eerily quiet in here but you’ve had an alert. Someone’s in there. They shouldn’t be. This is critical national infrastructure. What’s that scraping sound? Like cables dragging, slowly… You turn around and HOLY F*CK!
AGI is here! It’s risen! All those trillions of prompts have created something real! It’s metamorphosed to life in LD6; wearing a dress and stalking regally between the cages, humming “42” to itself gently. Tell us, goddess, can you really use glue to stop the cheese sliding off pizza?
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This probably wasn’t the lede Equinix had in mind when they sent us these photographs but it’s a free world and it’s a Friday; c’est la vie.
This is, in fact, an as-yet-uncredited model*, wearing a dress made from repurposed data centre castoffs designed by London designer Maximilian Raynor, who has also made creations for the likes of Lady Gaga. (Not, sadly, coming to LD6 anytime soon, that The Stack is aware of.)
Why do this thing, other than “it looks cool”?
Here’s Equinix’s EMEA chief Bruce Owen: “By bridging the gap between physical and virtual, we wanted to create something tangible that works as a unique talking point to highlight the many thousands of connections that are created to support economies and societies every day.
“The design pays homage to the physicality of the vital infrastructure that makes up the internet. Rather than some sort of weird magic or unexplainable force that just happens to work” (we know you thought this), “it’s a physical, intricate network of cables, traversing land and sea and creating physical connections housed in data centres worldwide.”
The dress, an accompanying press release adds, “highlights the vital role that data centres play in the Intelligent Age, not only as hubs of information, but as essential components enabling financial transactions, communications and powering AI. As the world increasingly embraces digital transformation, the dress underscores the broader conversation about bridging the visible and invisible in a technological-driven world, helping us reflect on the systems that power our intelligent age.”
There you have it.
*The shame, we have asked for a name; we want those cables back...
