The Urban Infobahn: Parasites of affordance Part 2 Project 2025 Ellie Wilkes Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | UK ‘The Urban Infobahn’ and its associated architectures provide a comprehensive technical, environmental and spatial strategy for the implementation of a new data centre typology based in Derry/Londonderry. Through realising the material benefits of data centres in the city’s urban centre, this thesis forms a ‘reactive’ response to data centres and their inherently parasitic reliance on human resources such as energy and water.By re-framing data centres into a relationship of direct exchange with Derry/Londonderry’s urban communities, this thesis poses a methodology to ease the city’s energy crisis, balance infrastructure and resources, and provide educational and ecological opportunities through place-ing.The Airc programme aims to reconfigure a widespread anthropological and urban estrangement with data centre infrastructure. Providing a new Research facility and faculty of Bioinformatics within Ulster University, Derry/Londonderry’s new campus, research facility and data centre hub aims to expand the city’s economic reach while constructing a new urban threshold to unite technology, academia, ecology and the local population of Derry. Utilising Project Kelvin’s low latency broadband connection with New York, Lough Foyle’s endangered native oyster beds, technological heat outputs and the River Foyle as a cooling source, the site acts as a microcosm for reaping the benefits of technological exchange. Tutor(s) Simone Ferracina