![]() The Newport site should rattle the Welsh Government in its aspiration to create the world’s first sustainable nation.Īndrew Blum set himself the task of writing about the web behind the Web. That daily quintillion of data, those six billion photos on Facebook, have a cost. Currently they consume two percent of the world’s energy supply, rising by twelve percent a year. ![]() Next Generation is Europe’s leading provider of ‘premium carrier-neutral co-location data centres.’ Andrew Blum in Tubes does not get to Newport but he does get to a Google data centre, or colloquially ‘a server farm’, on Oregon’s mighty Columbia River. The company is a beneficiary of the great Lucky Goldstar project, signed off in 1996 by then Secretary of State William Hague, which never came about. ![]() Next Generation Data is a stone’s throw from Newport’s Tredegar House. ![]() Adam Sommerset reviews Tubes, Andrew Blum’s brilliant journalistic take on ‘the web behind the Web’ and how the internet really works. ![]()
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