We're talking a lot about the energy requirements of modern and future data centers. But what are the community impacts? Check out below some tremendous work by our Tetra Tech partners Hoare Lea, digging into the different social, economic, and cultural impacts of data center design, and considering what benefits they may bring to cities in need of jobs, resources, and stability. Tetra Tech High Performance Buildings Group Cosentini Associates NDY
We’ve been speaking to experts from across the data centre sector to look at the opportunity for these essential structures to become more socially integrated in their local communities. Our report, DC Society: Putting Community into Data Centre Thinking launches today and finds that recent data centre infrastructure developments have been creating jobs and attracting business investment, especially low-latency applications such as e-sports, economic growth and innovation. But could they do more for local communities? To find out more, click here: https://lnkd.in/eATvBi4C Do let us know what you think by commenting below. If you’d like to speak to our Data Centre Mission Critical team, please contact Derek Main, for our Societal Insights team, please contact Paul Hanna. Thanks our brilliant report editor, Nicholas Easen to all the people who took time to speak to us about their thoughts on the sector. Rob Green Tony Doyle Matt Studley Emma Fryer Dael Williamson Alfred Biehler Sergey Shatov Angela Schembri Fieke Jansen Leila Dawney Anke Winchenbach, PhD Alex Read