The “techlash” against data centres

What is a data centre?

A data centre is a big, highly secure building full of computers and the other physical infrastructure that the digital world is built on. They’ve been around for decades (since the 1940s, reckons IBM, in the form of “server rooms”), but the internet, cloud computing and now the widespread adoption of AI have all radically increased the need for giant – and now “hyperscale” – centres.…

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