There’s a growing expectation that if you build a datacentre, you must meet your own energy needs. But there are other key policy questions that need answering Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Our online lives are increasingly reliant on digital data, whether it’s asking an AI chatbot a question, generating a video or transcribing an online meeting. Datacentres – giant warehouses stacked with servers to process and store all that data – have been around for decades. But what’s changing is the rapid pace and scale of industry growth, fuelled by the uptake of artificial intelligence. Continue reading...