{"id":26651,"date":"2026-07-27T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/?p=26651"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:05:49","slug":"data-centres-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/de-DE\/2026\/07\/27\/data-centres-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centres are under fire &#8211; Building Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light advgb-dyn-ca91bb4b\" style=\"min-height:426px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-26657 size-full lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-27-2026-01_26_28-PM.png\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1536px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1536\/1024;object-position:43% 91%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"43% 91%\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-27-2026-01_26_28-PM.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-27-2026-01_26_28-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-27-2026-01_26_28-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Jul-27-2026-01_26_28-PM-768x512.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 id=\"h-data-centres-are-under-fire-but-the-industry-is-already-changing-how-they-are-built\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-sky-blue-color has-text-color advgb-dyn-413a1c3f\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Data centres are under fire \u2013 but the industry is already changing how they are built<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-758564a576674d4f9460f3586f08207f wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Claire Keelan, UK Managing Director at Onnec<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a94c6939c1e43c2399b8e6d619327ab2 wp-block-paragraph\">Spend five minutes on TikTok or Instagram and you will see the mood turning against data centres.<br><br>Posts warn about water use, energy demand and industrial buildings swallowing up green space. This sentiment is spilling into the real world too. Nearly 5,000 people have signed a petition opposing plans for a data centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpv3w39gv9ro\">near Norwich<\/a>, while developments in Kent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9w20zxydjko\">north Devon<\/a> have also faced vocal resistance. In Scotland, the SNP has backed calls for a <a href=\"https:\/\/datacentrereview.com\/2026\/07\/snp-backs-calls-for-temporary-ban-on-ai-data-centre-developments-in-scotland\/\">temporary moratorium<\/a> on AI data centre developments.<br><br>What this debate misses is that the very platforms carrying many of those objections are powered by data centres. So are the AI tools now used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iabuk.com\/standard-content\/ai-usage-statistics\">26.4 million people in the UK<\/a>, the streaming services we watch, the banking apps we rely on and the cloud systems keeping businesses running.<br><br>That does not make concerns about data centres invalid. Communities deserve honest answers about land, energy and water. But the conversation has become lopsided. We talk endlessly about what data centres consume, while saying far less about what they enable.<br><br><strong>The question is not whether we should build them. It is how we build them better.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-demand-is-not-going-away\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-smalt-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f0064f02c6d56a5a00bd7b4aaf8e2d29\"><strong>demand is not going away<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ecd63b97bff01902fcc58b92ef831bd9 wp-block-paragraph\">The UK is already struggling to build enough capacity to keep pace with demand.<br><br>Every AI prompt, card payment, video call and hospital record has to be processed somewhere. All of this relies on buildings, servers, cables, power and cooling \u2013 in other words, a data centre. As AI adoption grows, pressure on that infrastructure will only intensify.<br><br>Yet projects are already being slowed by constrained power supplies, planning delays, skills shortages, rising costs and stretched supply chains. Community opposition adds another hurdle just as the country needs to move faster.<br><br>Digital sovereignty is raising the stakes further. The <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/cloud-and-ai-development-act\">EU\u2019s Cloud and AI Development Act<\/a> aims to expand regional cloud and data centre capacity, while the European Commission has awarded a contract worth up to <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/news-and-media\/news\/sovereign-cloud-framework-explained-2026-06-01_en\">\u20ac180 million<\/a> for sovereign cloud services from European providers.<br><br>Onnec research found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/2026\/07\/06\/europe-wants-sovereign-cloud\/\"><strong>76% of UK data centre professionals<\/strong> <\/a>see sovereign cloud as a significant opportunity for European operators over the next three years. For the UK, that is also a warning: if investment shifts towards the EU and US while Britain remains caught between rising demand and slow delivery, capacity, jobs and innovation will be built elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-look-beyond-the-chatbot\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-smalt-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f68bb660bfd0b438d60fd1101bc9cfba\">look beyond the chatbot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b1814d55d8690f34b1d968db3262eda wp-block-paragraph\">Public debate around AI often begins and ends with chatbots and generated images. But some of its most valuable applications are happening far from the spotlight.<br><br>Researchers are using AI to analyse medical data and identify potential treatments for diseases like Parkinsons that have resisted conventional approaches. Humanitarian organisations are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudera.com\/about\/news-and-blogs\/press-releases\/2026-07-09-cloudera-and-mercy-corps-deepen-partnership-with-agentic-ai-built-for-humanitarian-response.html\">using AI Agents<\/a> to process fragmented information during conflicts and natural disasters, helping aid workers make faster, better-informed decisions.<br><br>A data centre is not the breakthrough itself. It is not a new medicine, faster crisis response or a scientific discovery. It is the infrastructure that makes those things possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-build-responsibly-not-blindly\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-smalt-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54e5bde09ecf39322f34a83a633d8801\">BUILD RESPONSIBLY, NOT BLINDLY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-838dffd30a45a672243e0e6fec54707f wp-block-paragraph\">Saying data centres matter does not give the industry a free pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ffdefe1db2159f9e9a53589478ca2999 wp-block-paragraph\">Energy use matters. Water use matters. Location matters. So does the impact on local communities. But this cannot become a choice between building without restraint and not building at all. The more useful question is what responsible development looks like.<br><br>Technology is already helping operators reduce the resources facilities require. Closed-loop systems recirculate water, while direct-to-chip and immersion cooling can remove heat more efficiently and reduce reliance on water-intensive evaporative systems.<br><br>The most forward-looking facilities combine these technologies with renewable energy and designs tailored to their surroundings. In <a href=\"https:\/\/datacentremagazine.com\/top10\/top-10-sustainable-data-centres-februrary-2026\">Norway<\/a>, cold fjord water is used for cooling and hydropower supplies the electricity. <a href=\"https:\/\/datacentremagazine.com\/top10\/top-10-sustainable-data-centres-februrary-2026\">In Iceland<\/a>, geothermal energy, hydropower and naturally low temperatures reduce reliance on conventional cooling systems.<br><br>The heat generated inside data centres is also being put to use elsewhere: feeding district heating networks and homes across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stackinfra.com\/about\/news-press\/press-releases\/stack-infrastructure-connects-data-center-to-hafslund-oslo-celsio-system-for-city-wide-heat-reuse\/\">Nordics<\/a>, heating the Olympic swimming pool in Paris and even regulating water temperatures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/news\/green-mountain-launches-heat-reuse-project-to-supply-waste-heat-to-trout-farm-in-rjukan-norway\/\">trout<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/analysis\/crustacean-cultivation-lobsters-and-data-centers\/\">lobster<\/a> farms.<br><br>That thinking can extend beyond the plant room. At Brent Cross, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/news\/pure-dc-to-build-worlds-largest-living-wall-at-london-data-center\/\">Pure Data Centres is building a 7,400-square-metre<\/a> living wall showing how facilities can fit more positively into their surroundings.<br><br>No single innovation will solve the industry\u2019s environmental challenges. Together, however, these examples show that digital growth and more sustainable design do not have to pull in opposite directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-55.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26659 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-55.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-55-300x218.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/400;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>Lefdal Mine Data Center in Norway (Credit: Lefdal Mine Data Center\/Maverix Media)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-56.jpg\" alt=\"One of Verne's sustainable data centres in Iceland (Credit: Verne)\" class=\"wp-image-26658 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/400;width:550px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-56.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-56-300x218.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>One of Verne&#8217;s sustainable data centres in Iceland (Credit: Verne)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-the-infrastructure-behind-the-ambition\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-smalt-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a992a5b45891b6371299177d660930bb\">The infrastructure behind the ambition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-168e0387dbb242fd28f9bd1e7769a22e wp-block-paragraph\">The UK has no shortage of AI ambition, with the government pushing AI Growth Zones and broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/ai-opportunities-action-plan-one-year-on\/ai-opportunities-action-plan-one-year-on\">AI Opportunities Action Plan<\/a>. The harder question is whether it is prepared to build the infrastructure that ambition requires.<br><br>Doing so will take more than efficient servers and sustainability targets. Building and upgrading these facilities responsibly requires specialist expertise from the outset: understanding the whole environment, identifying constraints early and coordinating complex work without compromising safety, efficiency or uptime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-midnight-express-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1d0cad9dbbfe5cd46bf1ab474fee2f48 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The UK cannot embrace AI in theory while rejecting the infrastructure behind it in practice. There is no AI at scale without data centres. So, let\u2019s stop asking whether we need them and focus instead on how we build them better.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-ash-grey-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center advgb-dyn-2b6f9d5f\" id=\"h-learn-more\">learn more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"c-post-builder-block blog\">\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"c-post-builder-block__items c-post-builder-block__items--has-rows\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"c-post-builder-block__item\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<article id=\"post-26747\" class=\"teaser teaser--type-blog teaser--has-thumbnail\">\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"teaser__inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/de-DE\/2026\/08\/11\/the-perfect-storm-why-munsters-moment-has-arrived\/\" title=\"The Perfect Storm: Why Munster&#8217;s Moment Has Arrived\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"teaser__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/08\/munster-dc-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"teaser__image-img wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/08\/munster-dc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/08\/munster-dc-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/08\/munster-dc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/08\/munster-dc.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; 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Building Better<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<p>As public backlash grows, the data centre industry must show how it is already building better.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"teaser__button wp-block-button is-style-fill\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"teaser__button-link wp-block-button__link has-sky-blue-background-color has-background\">\n\t\t\t\t\tMehr erfahren\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"visually-hidden\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00fcber Data centres are under fire &#8211; Building Better\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/article><!-- #post-26651 -->\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"c-post-builder-block__item\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<article id=\"post-26629\" class=\"teaser teaser--type-blog teaser--has-thumbnail\">\n\n\t\t\t<a class=\"teaser__inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/de-DE\/2026\/07\/09\/warehouse-robotics-infrastucture-challenges\/\" title=\"warehouse robotics &#8211; infrastucture challenges\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"teaser__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-53.jpg\" class=\"teaser__image-img wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-53.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.onnecgroup.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hubspot-newsletter-images-square-53-300x218.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; 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