Veronika Wild

  -Image by Copilot If cables are the arteries of the Information Economy upon which we are ever more dependent, then Data Centres are the brains and nerve centres behind it. A data centre is a physical building or group of buildings which house large numbers of computers, servers, storage systems and networking equipment which store, process and distribute digital information. They are the superstructure of the internet and cloud computing and handle everything from websites, email, streaming services, banking transactions and artificial intelligence (AI), to government records and company data.  They also face much the same challenges as other infrastructure in a changing climate -an increasing number of adverse weather events – excessive heat, flooding, more severe storms and wildfires and so on, for which the remedies remain much the same. Because we have covered this quite a bit in previous posts, this one will be not so much about how climate change will affect ...