100 GW of new data centres will be added between 2026 and 2030, doubling global capacity

50 %

of global data centre capacity is in The Americas

Q. WHAT IS YOUR ONE PIECE OF ADVICE FOR SOMEONE WHO’ S JUST STARTING ON THEIR SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY IN A SIMILAR FIELD TO YOU?

» Follow the data. The first step is to try to figure out where your environmental impacts are. Measuring that is hard enough, but there’ s tonnes of third party raters, rankers and tools that can help you figure this out.

Just by going through that process, the data will lead you to what you need to work on first and help you prioritise because there’ s so much that you can do in so many different areas – so just let the data lead you.

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