Opinion
DCR Predicts: The ‘gig economy’ is coming to data centres in 2026
Claire Keelan, Managing Director UK at Onnec, offers her predictions for 2026, which include a belief that the 'gig economy' is coming to the sector.
Can AI make data centres greener, or will it simply make them bigger?
OryxAlign's Peter Schwartz explores how operators can use AI, modern cooling, and cleaner power to balance demand with sustainability progress.
DCR Predicts: Why Nvidia still sets the rules for enterprise AI
Nvidia's ecosystem will continue to shape most AI deployments in 2026, according to Phil Kaye, Co-Founder and Director of Vespertec.
DCR Predicts: Is 2026 the year Britain starts building AI factories at national scale?
Schneider Electric's Matthew Baynes argues that the UK is moving into its fastest-ever phase of data centre expansion.
DCR Predicts: The major cyber hurdles that could deeply impact businesses in 2026
Barry Daniels, CEO of Droplet, warns that ‘good enough’ cybersecurity could quickly become a catastrophic business liability.
Cleaning is now a resilience strategy for the UK’s data centre boom
Ian Wallace explains why specialist, contamination-controlled cleaning must be treated as critical infrastructure as operators scale at speed.
DCR Predicts: Will AI be the difference between UK leaders and laggards in 2026?
Businesses which embed AI into the fabric of their operations will outpace those still treating it as a standalone tool, Dell's Steve Young predicts.
DCR Predicts: Six trends that will decide whether data centres can keep up with AI in 2026
Black & White Engineering’s global engineering team explores the trends defining next-generation facilities.
DCR Predicts: Could storage be a key talking point in data centres in 2026?
AI has led to many talking about the cooling and power constraints that face data centres, but could storage play a bigger role in 2026?
AWS and Google’s interconnect is faster – but does it fix multi-cloud’s real problem?
A new AWS-Google Cloud interconnect may cut provisioning time, but emma's Dmitry Panenkov, argues that it doesn't yet address the real issues.
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