A report from Ramboll highlights strategies for achieving sustainable and net zero data centres as global demand intensifies. "These challenges can be managed and mitigated if data centres are built with climate, biodiversity, and circularity in mind from the very start." This data centre growth has prompted concerns regarding electricity usage, water consumption, waste, and impacts on local ecosystems and resources, especially in regions where investments in data centre infrastructure are increasing rapidly. Amongst the outlined benchmarks is the goal for data centres to ensure that all materials are reused, reusable, or recyclable, achieving zero output to landfill or incineration. "For instance, the sole physical byproduct of data centre energy consumption is heat, which has historically been unused and released to the atmosphere.