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Research reveals energy concerns impacting business competitiveness, the workforce and decarbonisation

92 percent of business leaders surveyed believe that fluctuating energy costs and instability still pose a threat to business competitiveness.

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Electricity 4.0 and data centres - the fastest path to net zero?

Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.

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Taking modular data centres to the next level with EfficiencyIT

Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.

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BCS launches 2023 apprenticeship programme

Business Critical Solutions (BCS), the specialist business dedicated to optimising digital infrastructure across the globe, has started recruiting for this year’s apprenticeship programme and is looking for the next generation of Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers.

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Data centre makes a splash

Deep Green, a British start-up, has launched a UK-first technology that supplies free heat to local businesses and public swimming pools, reducing their energy bills and cutting their reliance on carbon-intensive fossil fuel boilers.

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Enhanced integration in EcoStruxure solutions from Schneider Electric

More open, flexible and simple integration to the largest portfolio of building systems and devices, including electric vehicle charging and power.

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HiPerGuard delivers 98 percent efficiency at voltages up to 24 kV, providing a more reliable grid connection while eliminating power outages and reducing car-bon emissions.
Power management company Eaton is working with Microsoft to identify ways for data centers to monetize existing assets and integrate more renewable energy sources to help create a more sustainable and stable grid. The findings of this collaboration were published today in the joint white paper, Grid-interactive data centers: enabling decarbonization and system stability.
Innovative microgrid solutions allow data centres to run on their own energy sources with a reduced carbon footprint enabling additional revenue streams.
But being sustainable is good business: 97% of businesses agree that sustainability credentials are either essential or important in their buying decisions.
Partnership offers customers a reliable, turnkey, and secure micro data centre solution for cutting edge industrial environments.
“Norway has a unique foundation for becoming the world's most attractive data center nation. We have a surplus of renewable energy, low electricity prices, good digital infrastructure and a cool climate. The Government is now strengthening its commitment to a sustainable data center industry. This will create many new jobs in the regions and help develop new digital services throughout the country," says Minister of Regional Development and Digitalisation Linda Hofstad Helleland.
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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019

Blockchain, artificial intelligence, empowered edge, privacy and ethics, quantum computing, immersive experiences, augmented analytics, autonomous things and digital twins drive the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. David Cearley, Gartner Vice President, presented the trends at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

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