What do you think about this shift?
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are backing a new initiative to pilot climate technologies inside data centres.
That makes sense. Data centres have intense needs such as power, cooling, water, backup systems, reliability, efficiency, real-time monitoring. This makes them perfect laboratories for climate tech.
If a technology can work inside a data centre, under strict uptime pressure, it may be much easier to trust elsewhere.
But there is also a tension. Are data centres helping scale climate solutions? Or are climate solutions being used to justify more data centre growth?
Both can be true.
So should data centres be seen as a climate-tech problem, a climate-tech platform, or both?