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Why the data centre map of Europe is being redrawn

May 7, 20261 min readSource: Data Centre Review
Why the data centre map of Europe is being redrawn

As AI pushes data centre power requirements to unprecedented levels, the factors determining where infrastructure is built are changing. Eva Sóley Guðbjörnsdóttir, CFO and Deputy CEO at atNorth, explains why Europe’s centre of gravity is beginning to shift northwards.

We all have a mental image of what a data centre looks like. For most of us, it is a large, warehouse-like building stacked with racks and racks of servers, supported by a wide range of auxiliary systems to keep them operating. But it was not always that way. The design, size and capabilities of data centres have evolved in response to changing demand, usage and physical location. Looking back over the past three decades, we can see how different demands and constraints have shaped these shifts, and how they continue to guide how data centres are designed, built and operated today and tomorrow.

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