Cristina Ramos Cáceres
Senior Research Engineer
Research subject: Architecture
Division: Architecture and Water
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
About me
Cristinas' research in architecture and urban studies is focused on the relationship between spatial and energy planning. She has been mapping the data center excess-heat utilization phenomena in Sweden to investigate its legal, physical, and socio-technical processes and implications. The overall aim is to integrate the emerging resource-intensive industries, e.g., the data center industry, into the local context and maximize its impact through a cohesive spatial and energy planning approach.
Research Projects
Multifunctional Data Centers External link. [Cloudberry Data Centers External link., Swedish Energy Agency]
- This project focuses on the analysis of specific urban factors that could facilitate the integration of data centers in the urban environment through their excess-heat use within a local context.
DC-farming External link. [Vinnova]
- This project studies the challenges and opportunities of industrial symbiosis between data centers’ excess heat and greenhouse farming, specifically utilizing the north of Sweden as a case study region.
Mapping data for circularity [Creaternity]
- The aim of this project is to prevent missed opportunities for circularity through a participatory mapping process where data regarding spatial and energy planning aspects can be visualized and modeled on the appropriate scale to facilitate decision-making processes regarding future urban developments (e.g; housing developments, industrial developments, etc.)
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