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Industry under-prepared for surge in AI data centre demand

Tim Collier, director and UK data centre lead at Turner & Townsend, explains what’s needed to build confidence in the industry and to deliver data centres on schedule, how to navigate heightened competition for power and skills, and what the company’s latest Data Centre Construction Cost Index – which analyses costs and trends in 52 data centre markets worldwide – reveals for emerging solutions for improving productivity and the complexities of building especially AI data centres.

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nLighten appoints Dame Dawn Childs as CEO and Matthew Harris as CFO

Pan-European platform spans 34 data centres serving enterprise, hyperscaler and AI customers.

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Community collaboration and transparency - key to data centre success in the AI era

Edgar Van Essen, Managing Director, CCO and Partner for Switch Datacenters, outlines a dramatic decline in water use, new cooperative stakeholder models including green residual heat exchange networks, and a clear pathway to reach net-positive impact by 2040, as reported in the company’s 2025 Sustainability Report. With plans for six new builds and more, Edgar highlights how Switch Datacenters is growing its footprint to over 1GW capacity in the coming years while supporting local societies...

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Scottish data centre operator launches 'first-of-its-kind' recruitment contest

DataVita offers full-time role to whoever builds the most impressive project using OpenClaw – no experience or CV required.

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National Data Centre Day launches #BackToSchool campaign

12th September 2026 marks the second year of the awareness day, created to help recognise the role data centres play in powering the UK's digital economy and the countries AI ambitions.

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Castleforge and Galaxy Data Centers to expand £500m Redhill campus

Real estate investor Castleforge, in partnership with full-service data centre operator and advisory firm Galaxy Data Centers, announces that full planning consent has been granted for a new 15MW data centre development at its Redhill campus.

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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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