F E A T U R E

As AI places unprecedented demand on ageing digital infrastructure, ESG compliance is shifting from a tick box exercise to a critical driver of investor and customer trust. Sujata Kukreja, Global Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Expereo, explains why transparency around emissions, ethical sourcing and supply chain practices is a prerequisite for credibility and how forward-thinking businesses are getting ahead of ESG regulation.

Over the past few years, AI has rapidly evolved into an essential part of the working landscape, transforming the everyday lives of professionals in all sectors. When AI first entered the workplace, it was celebrated for its ability to accelerate productivity and remove the friction of routine administrative work. Across the board, embracing AI has delivered immediate value. All this without the majority of the workforce needing to understand the complex networks, cables and data centres that made it possible. Some decades ago, the early internet revolutionised global business long before most professionals had any reason to understand the complex systems that enabled them to access their inbox from anywhere in the world.

The key difference today is that AI’ s scale, speed and energy intensity are beginning to make the underlying infrastructure impossible to ignore for business leaders. The majority of employees still enjoy the instantaneous productivity they can pull from new technologies. Meanwhile, as AI

www. intelligentdatacentres. com 37