Architecture+&+Sustainability+2

I am working on my architecture thesis project which is focussing on data storage and the role data centers play in society. After last semester, I jumped from standard data storage methods (server racks, silicon based microprocessors, etc) to DNA based data storage methods. Researchers have developed ways to store data in DNA...it's amazing. They say that all the world's information can be stored in a tea cup of DNA, of course this is cold storage, and so the DNA still has to be analyzed, decoded, and the information rebuilt in order to become something usable (which then would be on some sort of machine that may or may not be DNA-based), but the implications for sustainability are strong. My project is extremely theoretical...proposing "living" vessels that circulate dna continuously so that the data is "alive" and usable. While the actual products of DNA based computers will lie somewhere between the spectrum of today's computers and the aquatic data wombs I am proposing, it will undoubtedly be more sustainable than the methods in use today. For one thing, DNA is a resource that is abundant and extremely durable--DNA can be found in bones that are thousands of years old. It is a renewable resource. Storing information on tapes (a current method) is not sustainable because the tapes deteriorate over time and so the information has to be rewritten every few years. Server farms are also not an ideal method--they take a ton of upkeep and energy. The future is definitely in DNA based computers and this will do a lot for the sustainability aspects of the industry.