Wired Italia journalist Francesca Forcella takes viewers inside some of the world’s most prominent data centers in a new documentary examining the industry’s explosive growth and its impact on local communities, energy grids, and water resources.
The video spans facilities across the United States and Italy, exploring how data centers have become the backbone of the digital economy and a critical battleground in the global race for artificial intelligence. DataBank is among the industry players featured in the documentary.
Watch the full documentary at Wired Italia.
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Despite AI hype and unprecedented capital deployment, 2026 will see tighter financing, constrained power, and gradual enterprise adoption as the industry returns to fundamentals.
AI workloads are reshaping data center infrastructure with extreme power fluctuations and cooling demands that are forcing operators to rethink everything they build.
The fundamentals that worked for decades no longer apply in data center construction. Single campuses now require 4,000 workers instead of 750 as the industry adapts to unprecedented scale.
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