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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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Specialist logistics underpins AI-fuelled data centre expansion

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Keith Young, Global Head of Last Mile Services at Arvato, explains how the recent entry into the US data centre market is the latest step in the strategic integration of ATC, the Irish logistics company that became part of Arvato earlier this year. By embedding scalable processes, advanced technologies, and a unified global delivery model, the organisation supports its clients in meeting the increasing complexity and speed of modern digital infrastructure projects, whether in Europe, the US...

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

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By Buddie Ceronie, GM for Telecommunications, VertiGIS.

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How can comprehensive commissioning de-risk data centre construction?

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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...

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The future of AI depends on data centre efficiency

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

By Sadiq Syed, SVP Digital Buildings, Schneider Electric.

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

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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...

Edge computing set to soar over next decade

UK organisations reveal strong appetite for edge and accelerated cloud adoption following the...

Downtime costs and consequences are worsening

New research details latest digital infrastructure failure rates, increasing outage costs and...

Digital Realty's APAC sustainability initiatives

Completed solar energy project at SIN11 data center; commenced solar project at SIN12.

Vantage Data Centers enters Nevada with $3 billion campus investment

Vantage Data Centers marks a new milestone with its entry into Nevada, further bolstering Storey...

Verne Global expands Icelandic data centre complex

High performance computing applications drive customer demand for flexible, scalable, and highly...

atNorth appoints Operations Director for Denmark

Jeff Kjeldsen will lead the operations team across atNorth’s data centers in Denmark.

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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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