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Hydrogen-powered AI factory data centre lifts off in Houston

Yuval Bachar, co-founder and CEO of ECL, the data centre-as-a-service pioneer which unveiled a world first off-grid, sustainable, modular, built-to-suit data centre earlier this year, explains the thinking behind the company’s decision to build what it says will be the first fully sustainable 1GW AI Factory – ECL TerraSite on a 600+ acre site in the New Orleans to Houston corridor.

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National Data Centre Academy promotes a sustainable future

John Booth, MD of Carbon3IT, explains the thinking behind the new National Data Centre Academy, as part of his company’s commitment to decarbonising ICT estates across the globe, by providing training in energy efficiency best practices in a real server room environment, demonstrating and showcasing products to accelerate the net zero agenda, and updating information on concepts and innovation to reduce energy consumption and to meet existing and future regulations.

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Rapid edge expansion puts pressure on power infrastructure

Daniel Thorpe, Associate Director of Data Centre Research at JLL, explains the reasons behind the edge data centre market’s predicted doubling by 2026 – with data regulation, low latency demand and IoT growth the main drivers. Daniel also discusses the urgent need for the renewal of aging power infrastructure across Europe, and elsewhere, currently ill-equipped to handle the increased demand for both electrification and the digital infrastructure boom of which edge applications (many driven by AI) are a significant part.

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Penta Infra focuses on rapidly increasing edge data centre demand

Patrick van der Wilt, Chief Commercial Officer, Penta Infra, describes the journey on which the company has embarked as a fast growing European provider of edge data centres. Currently, the company’s portfolio consists of 12 data centres, with plans to grow to 30+ over the next few years, identifying new opportunities to bring sustainable facilities to communities across an increasing range of locations.

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AI could ‘make or break’ the data centre industry

Jim Hart, BCS CEO, provides some brilliant insights into the sustainability, skills and supply chain challenges facing the data centre industry, and that’s before the AI explosion promises to redefine the rules completely! As ever, Jim brings some much needed wisdom to a discussion of the legislation, technology innovation, and choice of data centre location which will likely frame the industry’s future success.

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Making the magic happen

Doug Loewe, CEO, Kao Data, outlines the company’s strengths which attracted him to join the colo at the start of this year, and shares his vision for the future – with new locations in mainland Europe part of an ACE (AI, Cloud and Enterprise) plan. Doug also offers some great insights as to how the data centre industry in general is responding to the challenges and opportunities of providing a mission-critical foundation for today’s sustainable, digital world.

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Substantial re-think required for data centre design and build

Andrew Fettes-Brown, Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) Global Board Director, Head of Data Centres at RLB UK and Europe, outlines the results of the company’s recent research, the results of which suggest that the way in which future data centres are designed and built must be substantially rethought to accommodate supply chain constraints and sustainability measures.

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Greener data centres set to take centre stage

Leah Goldfarb, Environmental Impact Officer at Platform.sh, explains the importance of being able to identify truly green data centres as organisation’s develop their own sustainability objectives and also look to meet their regulatory reporting requirements – with the new EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) set to have a major impact.

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Vertiv finds opportunities in responding to industry challenges

Sam Bainborough, Director, Strategic Segment Colocation & Hyperscale at Vertiv, discusses recent developments at the company, including expansion plans, liquid cooling, modular timber construction and energy storage innovations, as well as sharing his thoughts on some of the key challenges in the year ahead, with AI, sustainability and flexibility taking centre stage.

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