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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...

iWay partners with Nokia and Kyndryl for data center transformation

Swiss telecom leader iWay partners with Nokia and Kyndryl to modernise its data centre operations,...

Seagate's 30TB drives poised to drive AI storage revolution

Seagate unveils 30TB Exos® M and IronWolf® Pro HDDs, driving AI's impact on data storage and...

Loughborough University drives data centre efficiency and reliability

Loughborough, the world’s leading university for sports-related subjects, has undertaken a data...

ECL celebrates one gigawatt, off-grid, hydrogen-powered AI factory DC

600+ acres near Houston, Texas will give Lambda and other AI leaders the space and power needed for...

Vertiv introduces prefabricated modular data centre solution

Vertiv MegaMod and Vertiv MegaMod Plus are standardised data centre modules that cut deployment...

Vertiv and Atman join forces to reduce energy consumption

Vertiv is opening a new testing laboratory for IT infrastructure colocated in a data center - the...

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

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