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How can comprehensive commissioning de-risk data centre construction?

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...

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Unlocking Africa’s digital infrastructure future - data centre developments are key

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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Mind the gap!

Alex Stoewer, CEO of Greenlight Data Centers, outlines the data centre challenge as AI adoption is moving faster than infrastructure build out. Greenlight builds for the real world, one where extreme weather is normal, grid instability is rising and every hour of downtime costs millions. Alex discusses how Greenlight shortens build timelines through early utility partnerships, de-risks projects with local stakeholder engagement and future-proofs facilities against the kinds of failures that...

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Patmos expands Kansas City’s AI capability

Joe Morgan, Patmos’ Chief Operating Officer, outlines the company’s expansion of its AI data centre facility in downtown Kansas City, and the immediate availability of 10MW of new colocation space for high-density GPU, HPC and AI infrastructure. Purpose-built for Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and GPU workloads, the Kansas City facility is the first Patmos AI Campus - transforming disused industrial buildings into advanced data centres alongside spaces for...

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

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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Capacity demand increases despite ‘more cautious’ construction environment

Lucy Darling, a partner at Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB UK), discusses the findings of the organisation’s recent Construction Market Intelligence Q3 2025 report, which finds that power constraints in London have prompted increased data centre investment in other regions, including Greater Manchester, Newcastle, Wales and Scotland. Lucy also outlines some of the other challenges facing the data centre sector, including tariffs introduced during Trump’s presidency, combined with environmental...

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Lumen to sell EMEA business to Colt Technology Services

Transaction will strengthen Lumen’s financial position and sharpen strategic focus.

Two thirds of international business leaders to scrap business transformation strategy

Fujitsu has just launched new research of 750 business leaders and IT decision-makers...

Raxio Group breaks ground for colocation data centre in Mozambique

The Raxio Group recently held a ground-breaking ceremony that formally kicks off the construction...

ADC is executing an ambitious plan to build data centres in ten of Africa's largest economic capitals

Africa Data Centres uses strategic investment from United States International Development Finance...

Teledata to open new data centre in South Manchester

A second data centre facility covering 25,000 ft2 will accommodate over 500 server racks for the...

Knight Frank expands data centre valuation team

Capitalises on rapid growth in appraisal opportunities.
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