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About Peter Judge, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Intelligence, [email protected]

Peter is a Senior Research Analyst at Uptime Intelligence. His expertise includes sustainability, energy efficiency, power and cooling in data centers. He has been a technology journalist for 30 years and has specialized in data centers for the past 10 years.

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Data centers face new scrutiny over heat island effect

August 20, 2026/in Design, Executive, Operations/by Peter Judge, Senior Research Analyst, Uptime Intelligence, [email protected]

Opposition to data center developments has been spreading due to local issues such as rising electricity prices, noise pollution, water consumption, a changing landscape, as well as the global issue of greenhouse gas emissions. A fresh charge has been recently added to that list: causing local temperature increases due to the heat island effect. Built-up […]