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Telehouse breaks ground on new £275m data centre, Telehouse West Two

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Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President & General Manager for Telehouse Europe, discusses the company’s new Telehouse West Two data centre, purpose-built to support the rapid adoption of emerging technologies such as AI. The new facility will integrate both air and liquid cooling technologies to meet growing demand for high density compute environments. The data centre has been designed to BREEAM Excellent standards, indicating a high level of environmental performance against a widely...

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AI - the solution to AI data centre expansion

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

Jackson Vo, President of Gridmatic Retail, discusses the pressures on Texas as a rapidly developing data centre hub, with operators asking the same urgent question: how can we secure reliable power while staying competitive on cost and advancing carbon-free goals? Jackson explains how Gridmatic, an AI-powered retail energy provider, is working with data centre customers like EdgeConneX to answer that question – by unlocking the hidden flexibility in large electrical loads.

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Dynamism and energy - key to the BCS new brand

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Anna Rantala, Marketing Manager at BCS, discusses the company’s new branding – a refresh that is about showing the world the BCS that already exists - modern, dynamic, and human at its core. Anna explains how the new branding is the platform to grow into the next decade and ‘gives space to our people and culture, the part of BCS that clients always tell me makes the biggest difference. It might feel like a big change, but the truth is we’ve been this brand all along. We just weren’t...

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Legacy data centres - time for open heart surgery?!

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Simon Harris, Director of Critical Infrastructure at BCS, discusses the role that legacy data centres have in supporting the development of AI, with inferencing seen as a major opportunity. Simon outlines the challenges of making legacy data centres ‘AI ready’, suggesting that many, if not all, such facilities, need to recognise the importance of refurbishment if they are not to miss out on not just the current AI boom, but also the ongoing, general digital transformation expansion.

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Collaboration key to data centre project innovation

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Maria Barrero, in charge of Architecture and Business Development at DConcept, outlines the company’s innovative approach to data centre projects, with the focus very much on both the people who work in the data centre alongside sustainability. She shares examples of how the company has managed all aspects of data centre projects, from consulting and design through to operations and maintenance, with the collaboration philosophy of ‘designing the future by connecting the present’.

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Collaboration, connection times and capacity the key to delivering future data centre resilience

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

Pete Aston, Specialist Connections Engineer at Roadnight Taylor, discusses the findings of a new report Powering Great Britain’s Data Centre Ambitions, explaining how data centre developers are facing mounting grid connection challenges that can derail even the most promising projects. The interplay between technical, regulatory and commercial complexities in grid connections creates challenges that most developers underestimate until they’re deep into the process. Pete is confident that,...

Schneider Electric 'industrial' micro data centres arrive in Europe

Ruggedized, pre-integrated edge computing systems address the needs of Industry 4.0 applications by...

EfficiencyIT appoints Anthony Soares as Defence Lead Consultant

Following the announcement of the recent Strategic Defence Review (SDR), EfficiencyIT, a UK...

Proximity Data Centres secures major new investment to equip the UK with regional edge data centres

A new network of internet edge colocation facilities will empower businesses to keep pace with...

LDeX Group plough ahead with plans for second data centre 'LDeX2' in Manchester

Expanding UK based datacentre operator to provide best in class colocation services to the...

STL acquires data centre design and deployment company

STL, a global data network solutions company, has acquired IDS Group, a data centre network...

BCS appoints Head of Critical Infrastructure

In response to the increasing requirement by organisations in the datacentre, commercial, media and...

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

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