Data Centres

Data centres house IT infrastructure to power the internet we explore the AI boom, investments, water usage, and the strain on our power supply

• 'Do we want fewer emissions or more Netflix?': Inside the fight against Europe's data centres - Euro News 02.10.24 457479
• The Billion-Dollar AI Gamble: Data Centers As The New High-Stakes Game - Forbes 30.09.24 457464
• Data Centers At The Heart Of The AI And Digital Economy Surge - Forbes 25.09.24 457466
• Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? - Guardian 15.09.24 457485
• Data centres as vital as NHS and power grid, government says - BBC 12.09.24 457439
• Why the UK is Listing Data Centres as Critical Cyber Assets - Cyber Magazine 12.09.24 457463
• Under attack: The growing cybersecurity threats facing our data centres - GHD 02.09.24 457462
• Top 10: Biggest Data Centre Projects - Data Centre 14.08.24 457468
• Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay - Guardian 01.08.24 457480
• Not just nimbys – why data centre protests are on the rise - Raconteur 30.07.24 457448
• Data centres are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient? - Conversation 29.07.24 457458
• France quietly catches rivals in battle for data centre supremacy - France24 24.07.24 457484
• Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined - Guardian 23.07.24 457459
• Why Communities Are Protesting Data Centers – And How the Industry Can Respond - Data Center Knowledge 13.06.24 457478
• AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand - Goldman Sachs 14.05.24 457456
• Data centers: Can the demands for increased capacity and energy be met sustainably? - White & Case 24.04.24 457457
• AI’s energy-hungry data centres bring sustainability challenges - Sustainable Views 04.04.24 457474
• Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years' - BBC 26.03.24 457454
• Data Centers and the Climate Crisis: A Problem Hiding in Plain Sight - Dataversity 22.01.24 457471
• Energy Consumption in Data Centres and Broadband Communication Networks in the EU - European Commission, 2024 457460
• The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say - Mongabay 02.11.23 457482
• Artificial intelligence is a very real data center problem - Tech Radar 18.09.23 457452
• Impact of Data Centers on Climate Change: A Review of Energy Efficient Strategies - ResearchGate 08/23 457486
• Assess the environmental impact of data centers - Tech Target 12.07.23 457469
• Data centres use almost a fifth of Irish electricity - BBC 12.06.23 457461
• Big data on a dead planet. The digital transition's neglected environmental impacts - The Left 02.03.23 457475
• Big Tech’s New Headache: Data Centre Activism Flourishes Across the World - LSE 02.11.22 457483
• The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud - MIT Press 14.02.22 457470
• Renewable Energy Alone Can’t Address Data Centers’ Adverse Environmental Impact - Forbes 03.05.21 457477
• The city where the internet warms people’s homes - BBC 13.10.17 457451
• Assessing the environmental impact of data centres part 1: Background, energy use and metrics - Science Direct 12/14 457476