It is not sustainable, or desirable, to continue building more and more traditional data centres.

Learn more about Bryden Wood’s Design to Value approach to Hospital Design and Construction.For many, Christmas is a time for family films.Over the break, I watched.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.Towards the end of the film, the three protagonists find themselves caught in a plant called the Devil’s Snare.This plant binds you tight and the more you struggle the tighter it binds.

You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..In my inaugural lecture in the autumn, I suggested that one of our biggest challenges to solve going forward is trying to get free of the tendrils that bind us.

Another metaphor is to reduce the viscosity of business.

I don’t know whether you have ever made a non-Newtonian fluid by mixing cornflour with water?That’s well known in the industry; there’s guidance in place and our focus on sustainability in design has meant that we’ve been working towards that for years now..

Grid electricity carbon factor.The electricity grid had a much higher carbon factor a few years ago than it does now.

This is due to coal plants, etc.However, substantial development and investment in recent years by the government and private bodies has reduced the carbon factor of the grid, through the use of renewables, nuclear power stations, and so on.