Opinion
Can the data centre boom survive a security skills bust?
Reliance High-Tech's James Smith warns that expertise in design, installation and maintenance is becoming the decisive battleground.
The AI gold rush is fuelling an e-waste problem – can refurbished kit fix it?
With AI demand driving a surge in data centre build-out and hardware refreshes, refurbished tech could help operators with rising carbon footprints.
Legacy data centres are the missing lever in Europe’s AI plan
Refurbishments, targeted electrical upgrades and smarter cooling can deliver speed-to-market, cost and carbon wins over new build data centres.
Five tips to scale cooling for mega AI data centres
LiquidStack's Kevin Roof lays out five principles to future-proof cooling as AI campuses scale to gigawatts and racks push toward 1MW.
Heat recovery is the secret to decarbonising data centres
Simon Prichard from Mitsubishi Electric makes the case for heat recovery strategies that slash emissions and supply hot water.
Power, not GPUs, will decide who wins AI
Chemistry, controls and utility-grade planning now trump incremental servers when it comes to deciding who will win the AI race.
Your outage costs more than you think – so design with resilience in mind
Colocation with built-in redundancy and simplified multi-cloud access is the smarter way to protect revenue and customer trust.
Will water, not watts, decide how far AI can scale?
Hidden water stress is fast becoming the gating factor for digital infrastructure growth, as EcoAct's Rachel Bratt explains.
Stop cooling the room; start engineering the loop
Ecolab's Stephanie Buschmann explains how water-centric, instrumented liquid cooling can unlock density while improving PUE and WUE.
Getting Germany right: the test case for net zero, AI-ready data centres
Germany’s Energy Efficiency Act sets the tone for Europe, but without policy evolution and investment in heat networks, it might backfire.
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