Hornbaker Transmission Corridor. Looking West across the Microsoft Hansen Farm property. 2026.
The approaching storm is bringing the only kind of 'cloud' storage that actually matters to the earth.
#VirginiaStorms #Sunset #Photography #DataCenterSpotting #ColdSteelRail #PrinceWilliamDigitalGateway
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3/3
Before the GPUs.
Before the ones and zeros.
Before the incessant hum of the data center.
It begins here—
steel turning earth into infrastructure.
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Transmission towers outside Surry, VA.
Identical structures, receding into a vanishing point, repeating until scale collapses.
Linear perspective turns infrastructure into an illusion of infinity.
Power made visible.
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The gods have changed. They now run on diesel redundancy and fiber-optic light.
Manassas, VA.; COPT DC-19 data centers, a part of the Bethlehem Technology Park, surround the Griffin/Jackson private cemetery.
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They’re built to be overlooked.
No signs, no windows, no life. Just walls, cooling towers, and security fences.
Monotony is the aesthetic. Sameness is the strategy.
A landscape of silence, humming at 400 megawatts.
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Cannon Branch Fort, Manassas, VA. A mini-oasis in the middle of digital sprawl.
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Behind these walls: your location, your habits, your memories, your biases, your fetishes — processed, predicted, and monetized.
We traded privacy for convenience. Autonomy for speed. Now the cloud casts a long shadow. #ColdSteelRail #HyperScale #SurveillanceCapitalism #DataCenterDystopia #Photo
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Charlie Pickett has lived on Dean Dr. in Manassas his entire life. Now he has a new neighbor, Jeff Bezos.
📷 New blog post →
www.ottoimagery.art/post/jeff-be...
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