Opinion

Q&A: Can smart electrification keep AI-hungry data centres from crashing the grid?

In this Q&A, ABB Electrification’s Massimo Muzzì discusses microgrids, battery-backed UPS and AI-powered energy analytics.

Unclassified data could be the silent saboteur undermining your AI ambitions

Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity, warns that unless businesses bring order to their data chaos, the costs – from multi-million-dollar breaches to garbage-in-garbage-out...

The importance of liability contracts in data centre construction

Nailing down liability caps before the first shovel hits the ground is now the make-or-break clause in every data centre contract.

Is enterprise AI deserting the cloud – and racing to the edge?

Winners of the AI era will be those that build a distributed, data-centric infrastructure able to place compute and intelligence wherever the data lives.

Is public perception the biggest threat to the UK’s AI data centre revolution?

More than half of Britons have never heard the term ‘data centre’ – a blind spot that could derail the UK’s AI ambitions.

An aging fibre backbone could put the UK’s AI future at risk

As AI workloads surge and facilities spring up from Northumberland to Wales, Lee Myall argues that Britain must re-engineer its old core networks.

Gas, hydrogen-ready backbone key to cleaner data centre power

Only a smarter, hydrogen-ready gas backbone can keep the UK’s data centre sector powered, according to Mitsubishi Power's Javier Cavada.

Why smarter cooling is the key to sustainable data centre growth

Johnson Controls' Chris King argues that next-gen cooling is key to meeting AI-driven demand without sending energy and water bills soaring.

Is your cloud-only backup strategy a disaster waiting to happen?

Apricorn's Jon Fielding warns that without decentralised, offline backups organisations risk both compliance failures and crippling downtime.

Why retrofitting is the key to data centre growth

EMCOR UK's Steve Clifford argues that upgrading live sites – rather than building afresh – can slash timelines, curb costs and trim carbon.

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