Data Centre boom and hidden ecological costs

Date Centres have been around in some form or another since the emergence of computing in the late 194s/1950s. yet, due to the lack of a centralised governing authority, there is no official classification for what constitutes a data centre. They can be described as physical facilities that organises or hosted by third parties external to the organisation itself. The data centres, as defined above, host the core IT infrastructure that supports all digital activity across communities, businesses, and the government. There is no doubt that data centres are fundamental to our modern way of living and our dependence on them is set only to increase as our consumption of data continues to grow. Every time we send an email, buy something online, save something to the cloud, or play online video games-it is all made possible via processing that goes on inside the data centre.