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The digital infrastructure sector needs to invest and innovate to meet demand

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Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst for Uptime Intelligence, discusses the organisation’s recently published "Five data center predictions for 2024" - AI and liquid cooling are both set to have an impact, but not at the scale anticipated, sustainability accountability has arrived, data centre software will get smarter, and there’s a growing trend for the building out of hyperscale campuses.

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AI, data sovereignty and location drive the data centre agenda

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Zahl Limbuwala, Operating Partner, DTCP, provides some brilliant insights into the challenges facing the data centre industry in 2024 and beyond – with his thoughts on AI, data sovereignty, data centre location, legislation and sustainability combined into a compelling narrative of the likely future direction of the sector.

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Modular data centre to host Europe’s first exascale supercomputer

Published in Design + Optimisation Storage + Servers

Dr Crispin Keable, Senior Solutions Architect for HPC, AI, and Quantum, Eviden, explains how a set of some 50 pre-built modules (20 IT containers, 15 power feed containers, 10 logistics containers) will provide a 2,300m2 turnkey data centre for the Julich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. Benefits to the client include flexibility and agility when it comes to required upgrade configurations, delivery time reduced by 50%, costs cut by a factor of three and a much faster installation process when...

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Winning the Digital Space Race: Can Battery Storage Plug the Data Centre Construction Black Hole?

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Power & Cooling

To keep up with huge data centre construction demand, a range of energy solutions are now required to break the bottlenecks that often lead to delays, missed deadlines and penalties. In this article, Billy Durie, Global Sector Head for Data Centres at Aggreko, explains why adopting battery energy storage systems (BESS) as part of a wider, end-to-end solution is key to keeping builds on track.

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Online tool helps streamline data centre planning and design

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Vertiv™ Modular Designer Lite is a web-based application for configuring Vertiv™ SmartMod™ and Vertiv™ SmartMod™ Max prefabricated modular data centres.

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HireHigher expands campaign to attract best student talent into the data centre industry

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Following the success of its campaign last year to address the ongoing skills shortage in the digital infrastructure industry, HireHigher is this year bringing the industry’s Rising Stars together with sixth form students from another seven schools across London, the South West and Wales. It is also hosting 60 students from London technical colleges at this year’s Data Centre World on 6th March.

Data centre survey highlights sustainability, outage and efficiency challenges

The results reveal gaps in sustainability tracking, fewer outages with more grave consequences,...

AWS to open Swiss data centres

New AWS Infrastructure Region will arrive in the second half of 2022, enabling customers to run...

An extra Dimension

Expanding footprint and client demand for next-generation data centre services fuelling growth.

Close Brothers Group disposes of data centre at zero cost

In a first for Close Brothers Group, the company has used its new Technology Services team to...

1&1 IONOS launches first UK data centre

New infrastructure to further support existing UK customer base and prospective clients.

Data centre outages cause significant data losses

Nearly one-third of organisations (30%) said they had lost data as a result of a data centre outage...

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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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