Is it a good idea for governments to be investing massively in data centers?
Our answer is yes. Computing is becoming as fundamental as electricity, but public money carries a duty private money does not: it must not leave citizens worse off.
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View all →Is it a good idea for governments to be investing massively in data centers?
Our answer is yes. Computing is becoming as fundamental as electricity, but public money carries a duty private money does not: it must not leave citizens worse off.
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Renewable power is a deflationary technology. Its gains flow not to whoever owns the resource, but to whoever owns the constraint.
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How the energy transition redistributes wealth, power and risk between and within countries.
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Urban systems, public investment and the infrastructure that underpins growth.
1 publication →Technology and the Digital Economy
Computing, data and artificial intelligence as instruments of national strategy.
1 publication →Economy and Public Finance
Fiscal choices, markets and the distribution of costs and benefits.
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Securing the essentials in a hotter, more crowded world.
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How states organise, decide and deliver.
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