A data center bathhouse? Architects are rethinking what AI infrastructure owes its neighbors.

Forma's "Pink Thermal Baths" imagines an underground data center that transfers the heat it emits to a public bathhouse above ground. Forma Generative AI has sparked a race among hyperscalers to build large data centers at high speed. Some facilities are being built near communities, attracting opposition from concerned residents. Architects are designing data centers that could benefit local neighborhoods. A data center goes up in the middle of a California desert oasis, and in return, a…