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SUMMARY:Keynote speech ESG in the age of the data economy — Navigating ne
 w frontiers
DESCRIPTION:Database infrastructure and data‑centre‑driven cloud services
  have become the backbone of the global economy\, underpinning competiti
 veness in finance\, AI\, logistics\, healthcare\, and media. Digitalizat
 ion and AI hyperscaling are driving steep increases in electricity deman
 d and reshaping grid load profiles\, accelerating long‑term power‑purcha
 se agreements and capital flows into renewables and storage.\n\nPolicyma
 kers and regulators are scrambling to catch up with this tectonic shift\
 , confronting the climate\, water\, land‑use\, labour\, and digital‑righ
 ts implications of hyperscale build‑out and AI‑driven demand. In Europe\
 , the EU Taxonomy\, Energy Efficiency Directive\, and CSRD are turning d
 ata centres into test beds for “green digital” policy\, with binding eff
 iciency thresholds\, granular energy‑and‑water disclosures\, and direct 
 sustainable‑finance consequences. By contrast\, the United States leans 
 on a patchwork of state‑level energy\, water\, and data‑protection rules
  layered on grid‑interconnection constraints\, producing a looser but in
 creasingly contentious environment for siting\, climate commitments\, an
 d community impacts.\nFor lawyers\, this is no longer a niche specialty 
 but a frontline ESG issue: guiding clients through sharply divergent tra
 nsatlantic disclosure regimes while managing greenwashing risk\, securit
 ies‑law exposure\, and potential climate\, resource\, and human‑rights r
 isks of the new data economy.\n\n
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