Drew Gravitt is Senior Director of Distributed Generation & Microgrid Sales at Mission Critical Group (MCG) explains how the demand for data centres is surging due to AI and digital services and how this is placing increasing strain on existing power infrastructure. With many data centre developers facing long wait times for grid connections, Drew goes on to discuss the ways in which distributed generation and microgrids can help address the ‘time-to-power’ problem.
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Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge, the company’s GPU HBM cooling solution and introduces the idea of Thermal Fabric, a real-time thermal control platform that transforms cooling from a reactive cost centre into a system level intelligence layer without the instability tax.
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Thiri Shwesin Aung, founder and CEO of Nyxium, discusses how she and co-founder, Paul Seurin, have built an agentic AI platform that helps energy and infrastructure developers decide where projects are most likely to get approved and built, before months of time and millions in development costs are committed – set against a background where permitting and siting, not capital or technology, are increasingly determining what actually gets built as AI-driven data centre demand continues to...
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Tom Salmon, group business development manager for data centres at SPP Pumps, explores the scale of the pumping requirements at data centres, arguing that turnkey suppliers and pre-integrated systems can help prevent another infrastructure bottleneck from holding back the sector.
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By Michael Poto - Product Manager - Global Chilled Water Systems at Vertiv.
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Cooling is one of the most expensive operational outlays in data centre operations: reducing its cost and improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is therefore one of the primary challenges for data centre owners. ‘Free-cooling’, an old technology that’s having a resurgence in popularity, can help with this challenge, but only if it genuinely exploits partial (mixed-mode) operation. Tim Mitchell from Klima-Therm explains why not all ‘free-cooling’ is created equal, and what owners...
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