Connected Magazine

Power hungry: How the AI frenzy is impacting on data centres

On a recent visit to Paris to talk with data centre experts, Connected editor Charlie Taylor heard how AI will lead to increased energy use

Digital Realty’s data centre campus in Paris: its orchestra of servers, data storage drives and network equipment help to keep the city connected

The first thing you notice as you wander around Digital Realty’s sprawling data centre campus in Paris is the noise. It isn’t a deafening sound, far from it. It’s a quiet hum that follows you around the building. What it represents is an orchestra of servers, data storage drives and network equipment, that combined, help keep the city connected.

Located in the north of the French capital, the campus is a €1.1 billion investment, which ...