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Building a sustainable digital economy - setting the scene

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

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.

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Expert Opinion Series - Episode 1 - DCS Talks to Centiel

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

In the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.

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Time for a data centre sustainability revolution

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

James Rix, Project Director, Global Lead for Data Center & Mission Critical CoP, Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd, provides a detailed, nuanced and expert analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing the data centre industry when it comes to the supply chain, skills and, crucially, sustainability. He argues that it is time for the industry to abandon its ‘softly, softly’ environmental evolution in favour of a strategic thinking and technology revolution.

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Best practice data centre optimisation

Published in Design + Optimisation Digital Business Energy Management Power & Cooling

Dean Boyle, CEO and Co-Founder of Ekkosense, discusses the importance of AI and VR driven thermal optimisation for live data centre environments – helping organisations to address their sustainability objectives as part of an overall corporate ESG strategy.

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Lack of skills threatens data centre disruption

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Mike Meyer, Managing Director, Portman Partners (Executive Search), provides some fascinating and expert insights as to why the data centre and wider digital infrastructure sectors are facing an imminent skills shortage, suggesting that innovative thinking and actions are required to address the situation before it becomes a significant bottleneck to ongoing digital transformation in both the business and consumer worlds.

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Decentralised data centres offer sustainability edge

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Richard Clifford, Director of Solutions at Keysource, discusses ways in which the data centre industry can address its Net Zero obligations with a range of technology and strategy innovations. In particular, he believes that next generation edge, with data centres being constructed and integrated into local communities, offers some significant sustainability benefits, so long as all the stakeholders understand the opportunity.

DCS talks to Technimove at DCW 2025

In this video, DCS talks to Technimove at DCW 2025.

DCW 2024: DCS Talks to Nick Doble, Surelock McGill Group

In this video we talk to Nick Doble from Surelock McGill Group

DCS talks to FlaktGroup at the DCA's 10x10 2025

In this video, we talk to FlaktGroup at the DCA's 10x10 2025.

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...

DCS talks to RED Engineering at Data Centre Transformation 2023

n this video, we talk to RED Engineering at Data Centre Transformation 2023.

Time for a sustainability revolution?

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities...

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