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Mark Wilson, CEO of ILI Group, discusses the ILI Group’s plans for three new hyperscale data centres across Scotland, creating what it calls The Stoics – a £15 billion Green Digital Network spanning the central belt. The projects, named after Stoic philosophers, are located in Fife (Cato), East Ayrshire (Rufus), and North Lanarkshire (Aurelius). The Stoics will stand among the largest hyperscale data centre clusters globally - more than double the size of many of today’s biggest...

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Partner data centres with biodiversity for a sustainable AI era

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

By David Davies, Associate Director at Arup.

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Assessing the state of the energy industry

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

Rebecca Scottorn, Partner at L.E.K. Consulting and part of the global Industrials Practice, discusses the company’s recent ‘State of the Energy Industry’ report, providing valuable insights into a range of topics, including decarbonisation and sustainability, grid modernisation, renewables, behind-the-meter gas solutions, and the impact of AI - as part of the overall energy transition landscape.

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2026’s Perfect Storm: AI Growth vs. Power Availability

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

TES Power’s Managing Director, Michael Beagan explores the top five power challenges the data centre industry may face in 2026, in light of the surge in AI. With a huge increase in demand, power is becoming the most precious commodity across the data centre industry, and this piece delves into the details of why.

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Powering Intelligence: GIS and the Global Race to Build AI Data Centres

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation

By Buddie Ceronie, GM for Telecommunications, VertiGIS.

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How can comprehensive commissioning de-risk data centre construction?

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation

Straightline Consulting’s Craig Eadie discusses how the rapid rise of hyperscale and AI-driven data centres is amplifying project complexity and risk, and why comprehensive commissioning from day one is now critical in his latest thought-leadership article. Craig highlights how long-lead equipment delays, tightening grid constraints, and beginning commissioning before quality control can derail builds, stressing the need for commissioning teams to actively manage supply chains, verify...

Dutch Relined Fiber Network connects German data centres

The Dutch company Relined Fiber Network expands its dark-fibre network to Germany. Using a metro...

Keysource makes senior appointment

Keysource has appointed David Franczak to support its standalone Lender Technical Advisor (LTA)...

CyrusOne confirms fourth data centre

CyrusOne Inc. plans to develop a state-of-the-art data centre delivering 17 megawatts of power...

Global survey explores networking needs for AI era

Data centre experts predict at least 6X increase in DCI bandwidth demand over next five years, with...

Earth Wind & Power purchases first data centre container from Cloud&Heat Technologies

Purchase of 1.8-megawatt data centre marks the pilot of a strategic, collaborative RND effort...

Report identifies four emerging data centre models

Cybersecurity, cloud and fog computing, and sustainability spark new archetype trends in the data...

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