Environment Digest 48 – Data Centres: The New Gold Rush by Kenny Pasensie
If you’re reading this, the words on your screen have already travelled from a data centre halfway across the world through thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic or undersea cables, in just a fraction of a second. Whether you’re streaming a movie, using cloud storage or chatting with AI, your data is being stored, processed and delivered by vast, energy-intensive digital warehouses called data centres. Data centres are the new global currency able to support the economic growth of a state. However – they come at a cost.
Environment Digest 48 – Data Centres – the New Gold Rush by Kenny Pasensie