With a General Election in the UK approaching there is a focus on policy nuances and what a change of government may mean. But there is also a lot going on with current legislation underway which will affect our industry - perhaps most notably the Carbon Reduction Commitment.

For this, Lumison is in very good shape, with enough energy-efficient optimisation already in place within our datacenters to make this a far from onerous piece of regulation. In fact, we welcome it because we, as any responsible business, believe it is up to all of us to mitigate growing energy use and its potentially harmful effects. We are also delighted to be able to help all of our customers through the process of reducing energy consumption – whether to save the planet or their utility bills.

We do however believe the UK can’t be an island of responsibility on this issue: any legislation of this nature needs to be Europe wide, launched simultaneously with the same levels of enforcement and education. We hope this can be realised. What we cannot risk is the UK stepping up and meeting all of its responsibilities, but resulting in business seeing opportunities elsewhere in Europe to bury bad carbon debts. It is the same with taxes, we want to encourage businesses to come and spend money in the UK but we will not achieve that if we are a comparatively far harder to place to do business.