Webinar: Overview of Data Centres in the Modern Economy 2026

The LMA invites members to a series of webinars on the risk and resilience of data centres.

Across three webinars, the Uptime Institute will take attendees from an introduction to the data centre market and its business models, through the core technologies that enable operations, to the regulatory, resilience and risk considerations that will shape the future of the sector.

Please register for each session individually.

Session 1: Overview of Data Centres in the Modern Economy

• The origins and evolution of data centres
• The data centre sector: size, growth, trends, ownership
• Basic economics: customers, contracts, utilisation, scale
• Site selection and location
• Data centre services and customer delivery models
• Cloud, colocation and hosting – business models
• Types of data centres
• The data centres supplier ecosystem
• The emergence and impact of AI (part 1): workloads, scale, design

Data Centre Risk and Resilience: Webinar Series

• Register for session 2 here
• Register for session 3 here

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