DICE Network+ meet with Datum Datacentres

The visit offered a valuable insight into the bespoke offering Datum provides to its clients, and the range of organisations they serve. This diversity reinforced a key finding from our ongoing data centre deep dive: data centres vary considerably in their models, infrastructure, and client relationships, and cannot be treated as a uniform category.

This has direct implications for how circular economy approaches are developed and applied in the sector. Strategies around hardware reuse, energy recovery, and end-of-life asset management need to be tailored to the specific context of each facility. A circularity framework that works well in one setting may not be appropriate or effective in another. Understanding the operational model and client base of a given centre is therefore an important first step before any meaningful strategy can be developed.