Data Centres

Everyone wants AI magic. Few want to dig the foundations. AI doesn't live in the cloud. It lives in large data centres. In a building that needs power. Power that takes 3 years to connect. We're building Ferrari engine…

Last month I briefed UK Politicians on data centres. They didn't want 87 slides. They wanted the way out. Today! Five minutes. No labyrinth. Just the path. Our industry is stuck. Grid queues to 2040. Talent gaps doubli…

Data centres are power-hungry monsters. Not so! And after 20 years building them, I'm done with watching fear win. As for the real monster? It's not what you think. I built this infographic because the industry won't …

I press my face against aeroplane windows like a child. Every Heathrow landing, I'm scanning for something special. This week... Bingo‼️ (My wife thinks I need help. She's probably right) But this week I spotted somet…

🚨 BREAKING: Barcelona just became Europe's digital gateway. Digital Realty's BCN1 goes live. 14MW. €230 million. Built for AI, cloud and low-latency interconnection. Four years in the making. Strategically, right on ti…

It's only 9am. And a data centre has done more for you than most people will all day. Sorry, but it's true. How does your day look at 9am? Here's mine: ✅ Alarm woke me up ✅ Checked the weather ✅ Texted the family grou…

A pretty nice example of the function of a very specific type of tech industry lie: "we can fix this later". It's just extra-special because it relates to one of the single most harmful planned data centres on Earth. …

Great to see this new parliamentary inquiry in Australia into, specifically, "AI data centres" - as we know that it is generative AI systems that are driving the very new mode of inefficiency, waste, bloat and consequent…

As someone with plenty of battle scars from the "wind turbine syndrome" debates of the 2010s, I think I have something to say about the rising fears around "infrasound" impacts from data centres. Namely: how the panicked…

You live in these buildings. But you've never stepped inside one. Visible from the highway. Invisible in your mind. I spent 20 years helping build them at Google, Microsoft and Meta. Let me help you understand what th…