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Mark Wilson, CEO of ILI Group, discusses the ILI Group’s plans for three new hyperscale data centres across Scotland, creating what it calls The Stoics – a £15 billion Green Digital Network spanning the central belt. The projects, named after Stoic philosophers, are located in Fife (Cato), East Ayrshire (Rufus), and North Lanarkshire (Aurelius). The Stoics will stand among the largest hyperscale data centre clusters globally - more than double the size of many of today’s biggest...

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Partner data centres with biodiversity for a sustainable AI era

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

By David Davies, Associate Director at Arup.

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Assessing the state of the energy industry

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

Rebecca Scottorn, Partner at L.E.K. Consulting and part of the global Industrials Practice, discusses the company’s recent ‘State of the Energy Industry’ report, providing valuable insights into a range of topics, including decarbonisation and sustainability, grid modernisation, renewables, behind-the-meter gas solutions, and the impact of AI - as part of the overall energy transition landscape.

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2026’s Perfect Storm: AI Growth vs. Power Availability

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

TES Power’s Managing Director, Michael Beagan explores the top five power challenges the data centre industry may face in 2026, in light of the surge in AI. With a huge increase in demand, power is becoming the most precious commodity across the data centre industry, and this piece delves into the details of why.

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Powering Intelligence: GIS and the Global Race to Build AI Data Centres

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation

By Buddie Ceronie, GM for Telecommunications, VertiGIS.

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How can comprehensive commissioning de-risk data centre construction?

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation

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...

Making autonomous data centres a reality

Ultima has launched its Autonomous DC solution to allow datacentres to be run in a fully automated...

Data Centre momentum continues in EMEA

2022 saw total capacity across key markets increase by 1020MW.

The Virtual Facility powered by engineering simulation

Citigroup has utilised the Virtual Facility (VF) from Future Facilities to improve its NYC data...

Fujitsu powers near-zero emissions data centre in wind turbine

WestfalenWIND IT has built one of the world’s first data centres located inside a wind turbine,...

Raxio Data Centre receives Tier III certification

With this certification, Raxio Data Centre becomes one of less than fifteen (15) Tier III,...

?436 million generated by each new UK data centre

The Data Economy Report by Digital Realty reveals that the UK’s data is worth ?73.3 billion to...

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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