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FUTURE OF DATACENTRES - MARYLAND RULING ON DIESEL GENERATORS - WHAT COULD IT MEAN FOR THE DATA CENTRE INDUSTRY?

James Vaughan, Consultant at BCS, examines the potential impact of the recent ruling on diesel generator backups in Maryland, asking what it might mean for the sector and what can be done in the future.

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Unlocking Data Centres: Sustainable Refurbishments

By Steve Davidson, Technical Director, Parmarbrook.

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Magnetic north: Scotland’s renewable future as a data centre hub

With green credentials that include the UK’s lowest carbon energy intensity, increasing access to RERs, low-cost land and political backing, are the pieces in place for Scotland to fulfil its data centre sector potential? By Kerr Johnstone, Director, i3 Solutions Group.

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Hydrogen fuel cells and the role they play in data centre design

By Euan Cutting, Electrical Engineer, Black & White Engineering.

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Designing sustainable data centres is key to preparing for a more digitalised and greener future

Dave Archer, National M&E Sales Manager at Mitsubishi Electric Building a greener future has become a key priority for individuals and businesses in the UK. Yet, 78% of the energy we use comes from fossil fuels which are responsible for most of the UK’s territorial emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Using energy more efficiently and intelligently in everyday life is vital to averting climate change.

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Electric vehicles: Threat or an opportunity to the grid? 


By Rolf Bienert, Managing & Technical Director of the OpenADR Alliance.

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Overcool or Overheat…

What is the temperature of your data center? Do you know? If someone asked, what would you say? “Where? It’s a big data center.” By AKCP.

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Videos

Ed Bissell, Sales Director, Stellium Data Centres, discusses the company’s recent OCP Ready Certification, bringing it many new opportunities to work with the Open Compute Project Foundation community. He explains what this means in terms of the data centre design itself, building on Stellium’s major focus on providing a highly connected, sustainable environment for customers.
Neil MacDonald, UK & Ireland Channel Director for HP Inc., discusses the importance of sustainability to the IT Channel, with a major opportunity for companies to become environmental trusted advisors to end users. Neil outlines the many programmes and initiatives which HP has developed to address key sustainability issues, such as a packaging re-think, tech take back and closed loop recycling, all of which help their Channel partners to deliver measurable sustainability benefits to their customers.
Continuing our series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Watkins, from VIRTUS Data Centres, discusses some of the many challenges and opportunities facing his own organisation and the wider data centre industry over the coming months and years, with sustainability the major focus.
Kunal Kaul, Cisco Managing Director, Partner Managed Services & SP RTM, EMEA, discusses a recent Cisco/Canalys report, which reveals that IT Channel partners anticipate significant growth in 2023, with the main driver being managed services. Technology-wise, the cybersecurity focus remains a major driver, alongside managing IT complexity, the AI opportunity and sustainability.

News

Deal to strengthen Vertiv’s capabilities to support deployment of AI at scale.
Data center construction is becoming increasingly complex, and global demand is rapidly rising. At the same time, planners and operators require components that are sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective. GF Piping Systems aims to meet these needs with an extensive portfolio of plastic flow solutions.
In early-access testing, cloud-native solution demonstrates high performance, ease of use.
Datadobi has introduced the latest release of its StorageMAP platform.