By design data centres are extremely sterile, even boring environments. Lowly lit they are filled with banks of identical server racks which hum away as they process computer code and send it back and forth from the internet. They are the physical incarnation of the cloud where so much of our online lives reside – from our online banking to the Netflix series we’re streaming, the funny GIFs we share on WhatsApp to the article you are reading right now. Despite their centrality to our digital lives, relatively few people work in these facilities. Those that do spend very little…

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