In a high-stakes compliance environment, treating data disposal as an afterthought isn't just a technical oversight; it’s a massive business risk. With the average UK data breach cost now surging past £3.4 million, "good enough" is no longer an option.

When you treat every file with the same level of urgency, you end up overpaying for energy and hardware. Sustainable data tiering forces us to make a distinction based on how often information is actually used. Without this distinction, your data centre becomes a drain on resources, where energy is consumed to maintain data that has no immediate business value.

While we focus on the digital benefits (speed, automation, and scalability), the physical footprint of power-hungry data centres is becoming a major risk to our climate goals and local resources.