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Collaboration is critical to data centre industry’s ongoing success

Jim Hart, CEO of BCS, discusses how the industry needs to focus on its ability to innovate continuously, adopt new technologies, and implement strategies that balance performance, cost, and sustainability - adapting to meet these growing demands while mitigating the associated challenges. Jim covers key topics such as AI, sustainability, edge, modular and scalable design, advanced cooling technologies, regulation and skills.

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Developing the most sustainable, scalable and resilient data centres

Gareth Williams, Director, UK, India, Middle East, and Africa Data Centres and Technology Leader, Arup, outlines a “good neighbour” approach to data centre development – one that integrates community needs, environmental stewardship, and technological innovation to create projects that benefit all. He covers nature and biodiversity, decarbonisation – what net zero really means, repurposing assets, ‘one water’ – SuDS, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, wetlands and ponds and (renewable and alternative) energy options.

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Global data centre demand surges

Jonathan Kinsey, EMEA Data Centre Lead at JLL, discusses the findings of JLL’s new 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, exploring the relationship between AI, sustainability and investment demands. Jonathan is confident that, despite certain challenges, including supply constraints and electricity limitations in some markets, the outlook for the data centre sector remains highly favourable. The industry is poised for continued growth, driven by AI adoption, increased data processing demands and ongoing technological advancements.

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Five principles for a sustainable approach to GenAI

Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell Technologies, and Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Director at BT, discuss the challenges and opportunities organisations face as they seek to leverage around GenAI as a key digital transformation tool - needing to find ways to minimise the environmental impacts of the technology whilst maximising innovation. They share a five-point plan to help organisations sustainably adopt and run GenAI.

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Sustainability delivers smarter decision-making and happy shareholders

Buddy Bayer, Chief Operating Officer, Colt Technology Services, discusses the findings of the company’s fifth, annual Digital Infrastructure Report, with sustainability planning, CIOs shaping sustainability strategies, the positives of AI, legacy technology, NaaS and end-to-end intelligent infrastructure just some of the topics covered. Buddy is optimistic that ‘smart sustainability’ delivers benefits for all an organisation’s stakeholders.

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Photonic processor promises 30x energy efficiency improvements

Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, discusses the company's first commercial product - a photonics-based Native Processing Unit (NPU) built on the its compute architecture LENA - Light Empowered Native Arithmetics. The Q.ANT NPU executes complex, non-linear mathematics natively using light instead of electrons, promising to deliver at least 30 times greater energy efficiency and significant computational speed improvements over traditional CMOS technology.

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Keysight Technologies, Inc. has introduced two new oscilloscopes for 1.6T optical transceiver testing: a single optical channel DCA-M and dual optical channel DCA-M Sampling Oscilloscopes.
Major data center players converged in London, UK, in the middle of March for the 2025 iteration of Data Centre World.
43% of CIOs say their CEOs and/or board of directors have concerns about their company’s cloud spend.
Failure to prioritise testing and integrate generative AI tools raises concerns as agentic AI adds pressure.

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