News Summary

• The number and size of data centres are today growing exponentially.
• They are vast buildings that house the computers needed to keep the internet going.
• All the major tech companies – Google, Amazon, Meta – are falling over themselves to build them.
• One estimate suggests that within the next couple of years, 291 trillion gigabytes of digital data will be generated every single day.
• Paris Marx has produced a passionate, well-argued case for action against the unregulated expansion that Big Tech is already imposing on us.