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Mary-Ann Clarke, AECOM’s Director of Data Centre Delivery, believes that developers, utilities, planners and government need to work together to accelerate investment in grid reinforcement and smart energy systems and strengthen engagement with communities to secure social licence for continued data centre growth – alongside recognising the strategic importance of data centres to the national economy and ensuring policy keeps pace with the scale and urgency of demand.

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Fire safety at scale: protecting modern data centre construction sites

Published in Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Asset Management

Aaron Velardi, head of North American development at Ramtech North America, explains that, as data centre construction across North America accelerates, projects are becoming larger, faster and more complex than ever before – and the consequences of getting fire safety wrong have never been higher. Traditional approaches, developed for early, smaller-scale facilities, are being stretched beyond their limits on today’s megasites. Aaron explores how evolving risks, updated NFPA guidance and...

Time for a data centre sustainability revolution

James Rix, Project Director, Global Lead for Data Center & Mission Critical CoP, Arcadis Consulting...

Legacy data centres - time for open heart surgery?!

Simon Harris, Director of Critical Infrastructure at BCS, discusses the role that legacy data...

Talking ‘bout the younger generation!

Xavier Plowright, Senior Analyst – Data Centre Transactions EMEA at JLL, won the Rising Stars...

Partnership to accelerate data centre sustainability

Venessa Moffat, EMEA Channel Manager, Ekkosense and Nick Ewing, MD of Efficiency IT, discuss the...

Shooting the breeze on thermal management

Chair of the Data Centre Alliance’s Thermal Management Special Interest Group (SIG), Jon Summers,...

AI - the solution to AI data centre expansion

Jackson Vo, President of Gridmatic Retail, discusses the pressures on Texas as a rapidly developing...

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