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Commissioning Is About Certification and Verification, Not Box-Ticking

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By CEO of Global Commissioning, Louis Charlton

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Women, Workforce, and the Retrofit Race: The Trends Set to Define UK Data Centres in 2026

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

By Claire Keelan, Managing Director UK, Onnec.

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AI Ambition meets Sustainability: The new reality of the data centre sector

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Power & Cooling

By Terry Storrar, managing director, Leaseweb UK.

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£15 billion green data centre network planned for Scotland’s central belt

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

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

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation Power & Cooling

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...

New hotspots driving cost hikes in key data centre markets

Major global data centre markets are seeing soaring construction costs as development in new and...

AVK introduces the AVK Academy

As part of its ongoing commitment to developing the data centre industry's future talent pipeline,...

Digital architect for data centres

DCIM software from R&M designs infrastructures for computer rooms using drag-and-drop. New release...

Loughborough University drives data centre efficiency and reliability

Loughborough, the world’s leading university for sports-related subjects, has undertaken a data...

Leading data centre companies partner with Open Compute Project Foundation and WJE

Field Demonstration conducted on the application of low-embodied carbon concrete for data centers,...

INTERNET MULTIFEED expands Tokyo data centre presence with Colt DCS

Japan’s leading Internet Exchange, JPNAP, operated by INTERNET MULTIFEED will extend their...

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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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