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Conrad Purcell, partner at Haynes Boone, explains how data centre development in sub-Saharan Africa is accelerating, driven by rising digital demand and infrastructure investment. While project finance through DFI lending offers a viable route for funding these projects, they still come with challenges such as power grid reliability, political and social instability and contractor limitations. Despite these hurdles, strategic risk mitigation, market appropriate contract drafting and surging...

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Higher loads, faster builds: six trends defining data centres in 2026

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

This article was developed jointly by engineers from Black & White Engineering’s global offices, with contributions from: Wyn Turnbull, Yiping Lin, Niamh O’Halloran, Wesley Daniel, Rashi Negi, Aurore Knight, Adam Asquith, Eduardo Golloy Jr, Stuart Bridges, David Williams, Chris Nisbet, Charlie Bater and Kevin Laugo.

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What the UK’s AI growth zones mean for the data centre industry

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By Jon Healy, Managing Director, EMEA, at Salute.

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The Greening of the Internet Exchange Point

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

By Jennifer Holmes, CEO of the London Internet Exchange (LINX).

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WHAT WILL 2026 BRING FOR THE DATACENTRE SECTOR

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By James Hart, CEO at BCS, the global datacentre consultancy.

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Balmoral Tanks expands global reach in data centre market

Published in Design + Optimisation Power & Cooling

Balmoral Tanks doubles its export sales in the data centre sector, spotlighting the increasing demand for sustainable water solutions.

Keysource wins China contract

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data centre infrastructure company, has chosen Keysource as its lead...

Global data centre market confident about AI fuelled growth, despite power supply concerns

Research by DLA Piper shows Generative AI is expected to drive significant growth in the sector in...

Schneider Electric launches Easy Modular Data Center All-in-One Solution for European customers

New Easy Prefabricated solution is standardised and pre-tested, offering reduced lead times and...

Hyperscale data centre count reaches 541

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the total number of large data centers operated by...

Sagrada Familia wins DatacenterDynamics Leaders Award

Schneider Electric’s customised, portable and flexible prefabricated data centre at UNESCO World...

The Uptime Institute approves Tier III ready data centre designs

A range of innovative Tier III Ready Datacentre designs have now been fully approved by the Uptime...

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