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Helping to prevent outages and fibre failures

Mike Slevin, Senior Director Field Sales EMEA/GM, Fluke Corporation, discusses the launch of the company’s Versiv Data Center Kits that are designed to keep data centres up and running by identifying copper and fibre network connectivity issues before they arise and troubleshooting them quickly. With infrastructure teams under unprecedented pressure thanks to the explosive growth of AI, cloud and hyperscale technologies, the kits are designed to help technicians and engineers meet that challenge head-on - equipping them with future-ready tools to prevent failures, speed up troubleshooting, and ensure high-density fibre connections are clean, tested, and reliable.

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Data centre innovations drive sustainable, digital growth

Ciaran Flanagan, Global Head of Data Center Solutions at Siemens, explains the decision for Siemens Smart Infrastructure to open a data centre technology hub in the Iberian region, before going on to discuss how the exponential growth of the cloud and AI workloads presents a significant business opportunity but also significant challenges, and also outlining the ways in which Siemens is developing technology solutions to help its data centre customers streamline their operations, execute projects efficiently, and minimise costs, all while achieving their sustainability and availability goals.

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Data centres for good

Dame Dawn Childs, Chief Executive of Pure Data Centres, explains how the company’s belief that data centres can be the catalyst for urban regeneration, employment and positive environmental change is borne out by the development of its London site. She shares the many ways in which Pure Data Centres demonstrates a very practical commitment to sustainability, not least by setting up a wholly owned subsidiary company, A Healthier Earth (AHE), to deliver climate projects, including Biochar and Forest Factories.

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Can we power AI-driven data centres without derailing Net Zero progress?

Javier Cavada, President & CEO EMEA, Mitsubishi Power, discusses the many energy-related challenges facing the data centre industry as it tries to address the apparently contradictory demands of AI and the wider digital world at the same time as it continues on the path to Net Zero. He shares some brilliant insights as to the nature and the scale of the power problem and how these challenges can be addressed with technology, not ideology, as the priority.

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Architecture for scaling AI data centres

Ben Miller, Product Marketing Manager at Keysight Technologies, discusses the Keysight Artificial Intelligence (KAI) architecture, a portfolio of end-to-end solutions designed to help customers scale artificial intelligence (AI) processing capacity in data centres by validating AI cluster components using real-world AI workload emulation. Providing system-level interoperability, performance, and efficiency insights, KAI helps operators maximise system performance and pinpoint performance issues not found when testing individual components.

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AI might be here and now, but quantum computing is looming on the horizon

Daniel Thorpe, JLL's Head of Data Center Research, EMEA, outlines the findings of the company’s new "The Future of Quantum Real Estate" report, which details how quantum computing is emerging as the next major technological force, set to profoundly impact real estate – especially the data centre sector – similar to AI's recent revolution. Daniel discusses quantum investments, quantum computing infrastructure requirements, the emergence of global quantum hubs and the likely integration of quantum processing units into existing data centres, leading to hybrid facilities.

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The hidden economics of AI: balancing innovation and reality

Chris Carreiro, CTO, Park Place Technologies, explains why so many AI ambitions are faltering and how organisations can navigate this complex landscape. Core issues to address include the underestimation of AI's total cost of ownership, flexible strategies to account for potential future compliance costs, managing hidden implementation costs and balancing infrastructure with sustainability. Technology-wise, Chris explains the increasing importance of liquid cooling within the data centre.

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The potential of a connected world unleashed

Tom Artinian, CEO and President of TiniFiber, shares the company’s vision and mission which centres on delivering ultra-rugged, high-speed fiber cabling, connectivity, tools, and solutions that enable robust, adaptive network infrastructures - engineered for long-term performance and reliability. Tom also explains how he is strategically positioning the company to remain at the forefront of next-generation cabling and connectivity - driven by innovation, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.

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US data centre water expenditure to exceed $4 billion by 2030

Amber Walsh, Senior Analyst at Bluefield Research, discusses the findings of the company’s new report, U.S. Water for Data Centers: Market Trends, Opportunities, and Forecasts, 2025–2030, which reveals that the role of water in the data centre market is fast becoming a critical factor in site selection, design, and operations. By 2030, annual water-related capital and operational expenditures are forecast to reach US$797.1 million, representing a 31.4% increase from today, while hyperscale data centres, which currently represent 51.4% of total market demand, are forecasted to withdraw 150.4 billion gallons of water between 2025 and 2030.

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Structured cabling vs. point-to-point in AI GPU data centres

Michael Akinla, Business Manager UK / Ireland / Nordics at Panduit, explains that, as increasing numbers of data centres are being developed with GPU-based compute as a key growth opportunity, factoring in connectivity requirements for multi-GPU servers means that cabling, a previously near afterthought, is now a key consideration for performance, practicality and futureproofing.

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