Opinion
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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.
DCR Predicts: Is the AI boom about to become an energy crunch?
The soaring power demands of AI could force organisations to rethink how they build, run, and regulate sustainable digital infrastructure.
Data centres don’t have to waste heat – they could heat our towns
With ground source heat pumps and heat networks, data centres could become local low-carbon heat suppliers, argues Chris Davidson.
Is your cabling strategy ready for the AI era?
As GPU clusters scale and fibre counts explode, structured cabling can no longer be treated as an afterthought.
How can data centres decarbonise when demand is spiking?
The UK’s data centre sector is experiencing rapid growth, but it must also address rising emissions.
Why shadow IT is a growing security concern for data centre teams
With shadow IT and ‘shadow AI’ becoming routine across organisations, visibility, not blame, is now the starting point for security.
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