Data has become increasingly central to life in the 2020s, a trend exacerbated by the lockdowns of the past year, which pushed work, shopping, schooling and entertainment online. As a result, data centres are going from strength to strength.

Thanks to data centres, our increasingly digital world can bring huge environmental efficiencies to a whole range of activities, but these benefits come with costs of their own.

We are living through a digital revolution that is transforming the way we work, shop, travel and spend our leisure time, as well as how business, academia and governments operate.