With some autocratic regimes now using digital money for economic control and surveillance, can the original promise of cryptocurrency endure? Ten years ago, bitcoin was introduced as the first open-source, decentralised, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. The idea of money perpetrates every level of our lives. We…
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Germany: Going for Gold
Located in the heart of Europe, Germany boasts the continent’s most powerful economy, holds a disproportionately large share of the international business travel market and is an increasingly appealing proposition for corporate travellers. In 2019, the go-to places in Germany are Baden-Baden and Pforzheim, just over half an hours…
Power to Gas: The Energy Evolution
Europe’s reliance on oil imports, where supply is often dependent on external factors like geopolitical conflict and price rises, is risky. Luckily the power grid is changing, and thanks to renewables, the future of energy is being redefined. An increase in capacity of renewable energy sources…
Swedish Data Centres – The Sustainable Solution
Every time you like a Facebook post, watch a YouTube video, stream a Netflix show or make a purchase on Amazon, you are expanding your carbon footprint. Every internet activity involves amounts of data that need to be stored somewhere. Anything that involves images, especially colour ones, generates major…
The Great Transition
There has been a staggering fall in the price of solar and wind power in the last decade, alongside a call for climate action, leading to a rapid expansion of these technologies. Global demand for energy is on the rise, and as consumption increases our dependence on carbon-emitting fossil…
“Dirty Data”
An increasing threat to the climate Carbon footprint from data increase Streaming video, checking social media or connecting to a game server is part of most people’s everyday lives. But many do not think about the fact that all this activity requires data storage, which in turn requires vast…