Datacentre Enigma: UK Government's Transparency Problem The recent freedom of information request that yielded nothing but silence from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology should come as no surprise to anyone following the datacentre boom in the UK.
The government seems blissfully unaware or unwilling to disclose who is using these energy consuming behemoths.
The opaque use of existing datacentres raises concerns, but it's also the sheer scale of new developments awaiting planning permission that warrants attention.