Inside the Data Centre

Data centres consume around 2.5% of the UK's electricity, and credible forecasts see that multiplying several-fold by 2030 as AI infrastructure builds out. No other building type turns so much power into so little visible activity: no production line, no occupants to speak of, just racks of servers converting electricity into computation and heat, around the clock, behind availability guarantees that shape every decision on site. This lesson maps the territory: who operates data centres, what is physically inside one, and why the load profile is a flat line that makes this sector unlike anything else on this platform.