STRATEGIC BLINDSPOT: SA’s data centre boom exposes a dangerous digital governance paradox

Cape Town’s authorisation of two colossal data-centre complexes has ignited the predictable chorus of public alarm. The arithmetic alone is staggering: an annual electricity demand of 174 megawatts and billions of litres of water in a country already struggling with energy instability and chronic water stress. Such fig

As the hosepipe ban stays in effect around the country, it is becoming increasingly clear that data centres have a transparency problem no one wants to solve.

Communities fear they will squeeze access to electricity and water, spoil rural areas and boost tech giant profits with limited local job creation

KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 — Malaysia’s booming data centre industry is helping drive economic growth and foreign...

The Greens say a new data centre planned for the South Island risks destroying jobs in other industries by pushing up power prices, but a major investor says the opposite is true.

A Scottish clan has been urged to "defend" its castle amid plans for a large-scale AI data centre development on the estate grounds 50 metres away from it.