Opinion
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Has energy become the hidden cost of AI?
Greg Holmes of Apptio, an IBM Company, explains why AI’s energy costs need boardroom visibility as compute economics shift.
How to build a maintenance strategy that protects uptime
Mike Slevin of Fluke Corporation explains how strategic maintenance helps data centres protect uptime and resilience.
Europe wants digital sovereignty, but can it build fast enough?
Daniele Viappiani explains why power, permitting and land constraints threaten Europe’s digital sovereignty.
Why data centre delivery needs better leaders, not just more engineers
Phil Beale explains why communication, trust and succession planning are now critical to delivering complex data centre projects under pressure.
What really happens when data centre hardware crosses a border?
DataMove's Alex MacColl explains how engineering, customs and risk planning shape cross-border data centre moves.
Why AI efficiency needs a smarter benchmark
Jean-Marc Denis, CPO at Submer, explains why AI efficiency needs smarter benchmarks focused on useful intelligence per watt.
Why resilient data centres are built, not just designed
Pensdown's Phil Wiltshire explains how resilient data centre power infrastructure is built, tested and maintained on site.
Could empty offices help solve the AI data centre challenge?
Iceotope's Ian Ferguson explores why repurposing underused commercial real estate could offer a route to sustainable, AI-ready compute capacity.
The AI infrastructure scramble is changing the rules of cloud
As demand for storage, memory and compute becomes unpredictable, Commvault's Mark Molyneux explains what that means for cloud strategies.
The blueprint for scaling AI-ready data centres
Matt Wilkins of Colt DCS explains how Global Reference Designs can help developers scale AI-ready data centres quickly and sustainably.
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