Veronika Wild

-Image by Copilot  In this post and the next we'll be taking about the critical but largely invisible infrastructure that forms the backbone of modern life — power generation, communications networks and data centres. We encounter them mostly through everyday things like banking, airline bookings, billing, stock control and staying in touch with Auntie Flo, but they also control systems we rarely think about — managing water flows and power generation, running trains and traffic signals, and keeping us informed about what is happening elsewhere in the world.  Power generation provides the energy to operate these interconnected systems. Communications networks connect them to each other and to us. Data centres are more or less the brains that run them. None works effectively without the others — and all three are increasingly vulnerable to a changing climate. Power Generation Energy underpins virtually every aspect of modern life — transport, manufacturing, communications, even...