How the tide turned on data centres in Europe

A partial view of a server room at the Equinix Paris data centre, in the northern Parisian suburb of Pantin. Not so long ago, European countries were falling over each other to welcome the firms that run these warehouses, known as data centres or bit barns. But then the dream went sour. — AFP

PARIS: Every time we make a call on Zoom, upload a document to the cloud or stream a video, our computers connect to vast warehouses filled with servers to store or access data.

Not so long ago, European countries were falling over each other to welcome the firms that run these warehouses, known as data centres or bit barns.