Opinion: Digital infrastructure keeps our economy running during the pandemic

Opinion: Digital infrastructure keeps our economy running during the pandemic

During the pandemic, our society's dependence on functioning digital infrastructure became evident, highlighting the responsibility to design it sustainably.

Lasse Schneppenheim argued in this opinion piece that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the central role of digital infrastructure in our society. Wherever possible, people worked from home—enabled by a global network of data centers. The article asks: What would have been the consequences of a failure of this infrastructure?

The crisis highlighted that digital infrastructure must be understood as critical public service and designed sustainably.

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