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Imagine if trees could store all of our data. Imagine a world where server farms are replaced by data forests.

Rather than cutting down trees and clearing green spaces for data storage, we are creating a rationale for the regeneration and proliferation of nature.

By working with nature as a technology, we enable futures in which the exponential increase in data actually helps ecosystems to thrive. It could even offer opportunities to bring nature back to the city.

If 70% of our data is rarely or never used again, why does it continue to be stored on energy consuming, carbon emitting servers?

We envision the creation of a new complement for the existing cloud:

1. A digital cloud for real-time and regularly processed data.

2. A biological cloud to store rarely used data for long-term archival.

As DNA data storage is best suited for long-term data archival, it offers the perfect biological complement to the digital data cloud. Data could be stored in a clean way for centuries and of course be linked to carbon absorbing organisms. 

For thousands of years, human beings have worked to separate themselves from nature. Seeing things from a human-centred perspective has led to humanity positioning itself as a species apart.

Instead, we seek to understand the place of humans within nature. Alongside bacteria, plants, soil and oceans. We imagine what the world might be like if humans saw themselves as part of nature once again. To understand the true value of the ecosystems that have formed over millions of years and the underlying technologies inherent in living systems.

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