Foundations at risk : assesing the resilience of data centres and digital infrastructure

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<abstract displayLabel="Summary">The report examines the growing systemic and cascading risks threatening global data centre ecosystems. It highlights how accelerating AI-driven demand, geopolitical tensions, climate change, and emerging technologies like quantum computing are creating vulnerabilities across supply chains, energy grids, and regulatory landscapes. The analysis underscores that data centres, as critical infrastructure, face interconnected threatsfrom trade wars and political instability to resource scarcity and technological obsolescencethat could disrupt economies and digital services worldwide. To mitigate these risks, the report recommends strategies such as geographic and supply-chain diversification, scenario planning, investment in renewable energy and quantum-safe technologies, and embedding circularity principles to ensure resilience, sustainability, and operational continuity in an increasingly volatile environment</abstract>
<tableOfContents displayLabel="Contents">Executive summary: the nature of digital infrastructure risk -- Identifying systemic risks in the data centre ecosystem -- Trade tensions and national security -- Impacts of climate change -- Political instability and hybrid conflict -- The rising threat of quantum computing -- Cascading risks facing data centres -- Supply-chain fragility and market concentration in the digital infrastructure ecosystem -- Environmental and natural resource stress -- Technological obsolescence -- Regulatory and policy risks -- Recommendations -- Geographic diversification -- Supply-chain restructuring -- Use scenario planning and regulatory foresight to anticipate policy shifts -- Building out national data centre capacity and critical-components production -- Invest in a diversified portfolio of renewable energy sources on- and off-grid -- Invest in quantum-proof / quantum-safe technologies -- Build circularity</tableOfContents>
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