The opportunities and the challenges of a data centre building boom
08 May 2024
AI-fuelled demand for new data centres in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific promises to be one of the key drivers of construction growth in 2024 and 2025. But with more and more countries placing restrictions on these power-hungry buildings, locations, designs and even power sources are changing rapidly. Neil Gerrard and Lucy Barnard report.
Driving through London’s Docklands, the great grey windowless shape of East India Dock House stands as a testimony to changing technology.
Once humming with the crackle and whir of the printing of thousands of pink copies of the UK’s Financial Times newspaper, these days the building instead has become one…
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