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Data centres


Data centres and the carbon


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Data centres grow larger and more numerous with each passing year, refl ecting growing demand for digital services and online content. The power consumption of the energy- hungry server racks that feed our data needs is causing concern about carbon emissions. Jim Banks speaks to Ian Haynes, HSBC’s head of global cloud services, and George Kamiya, emerging technologies analyst at the International Energy Agency, about how to manage the carbon footprint of data centres.


he world’s appetite for data grows stronger each day, as consumers rely more and more on internet-enabled devices – and industries of all kinds rush towards digitalisation. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has doubled, while global internet traffic has grown twelvefold.


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