Data centres

The demand for digital services has grown rapidly in the last decade, with a doubling of internet users and a 25-fold increase in global internet traffic.

Data centres are the backbone of communications networks and have grown exponentially as demand for the internet and streaming has risen. 

Data centres use a huge amount of energy to continuously run and to prevent the equipment from overheating. It is estimated that data centres account for around 1% of all energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. 

Future technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) will need an enormous amount of computing power. Data centres will need to become much more efficient to deal with this added load. 

Compound semiconductors are being used to reduce the cooling requirements and energy consumption of data centres, generating cost savings and increasing the operating performance.