Compute Isn’t Weightless: AI Infrastructure and the Architecture of the City

2025 Hong Kong–Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Hong Kong): Techformance. Image © Jimmy Ho, Courtesy of UABB2025As artificial intelligence continues to disrupt sectors of the economy and reshape entire industries, institutions and individuals alike are bracing—and rapidly adapting—to the changes that machines seem to hold over our heads. Yet the more precise pressure is not simply AI altering the way people work and live, but the business models and inve