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Can data centre power architectures keep pace with AI?

nVent's Robert van der Kolk warns that data centres must rethink power and cooling architecture to deliver efficient, scalable and resilient AI infrastructure.

AI ambition means little without the people to run it

Matt Hawkins, CEO and founder of CUDO Compute, argues the UK’s AI ambitions will stall unless it builds the specialist talent to support them.

How do data centres scale for AI when power is the constraint?

Harting's Will Stewart explores how AI is forcing data centre operators to rethink power, cooling and maintainability as rack densities rise fast.

Europe’s data centres can no longer treat sovereignty as abstract

Jad Jebara, President & CEO at Hyperview, argues that sovereignty is becoming an operational issue for UK and European data centre operators.

Could being a ‘good neighbour’ help data centres secure grid access?

Equity Energies' Leo Evers argues that community benefit is becoming far more important when it comes to securing a grid connection.

Can data centres stay sustainable as AI pushes energy demand ever higher?

As AI drives data centre energy demand, Lenovo's James Pennington says sustainable growth depends on system-level efficiency and circularity.

AI won’t be won in the server room alone

Fabrizio Landini, Global Data Centre Segment Leader at Hitachi Group, explains why AI growth now depends on bridging the long-standing divide between IT and OT.

The UK data centre power debate has a queue problem

The UK's data centre power debate is being distorted by speculative grid queue projects, as AI hype and impatience masks what demand is real.

Data centre heat should be treated as strategic infrastructure

EnergiRaven's Simon Kerr argues data centre heat should be treated as strategic infrastructure to cut waste and speed up UK decarbonisation.

The Government got data centre emissions wrong – but that’s only part of the story

The UK needs more data centres, but flawed government emissions estimates expose the real challenge: powering growth with cleaner energy.

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