Data centers evaporate vast quantities of water to carry away computational heat. Where does that water go?

A surveillance camera continuously scans the sky. The confidence threshold of its face-detection model has been deliberately lowered, causing textures in the clouds to repeatedly trigger false positives. On a display, green detection boxes drift across the live image. The machine continues to see human faces in their absence, a kind of algorithmic pareidolia. The residual momentum of a gaze trained to look for us.

The waste heat generated by this continual search is conducted directly into a copper sculptural form placed within the viewer’s reach. Its temperature fluctuates with the processing load.

The human persists within the model as a statistical memory. (Something that can be deleted, but not forgotten.)