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Energy storage is a $1.2 trillion investment opportunity

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Energy Management

BNEF has significantly increased its forecast for global deployment of behind-the-meter and grid-scale batteries over coming decades.

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Fujitsu powers near-zero emissions data centre in wind turbine

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management

WestfalenWIND IT has built one of the world’s first data centres located inside a wind turbine, directly utilising eco-friendly electricity.

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Designing an energy-efficient data centre

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management

Minkels launches white paper 10 about the use of the EN 50600 to design an energy-efficient data centre.

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Edge data centres for next generation processing and storage

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

There are a number of major trends and technologies which are currently reshaping the IT market and changing the requirements for IT infrastructure. These include the IoT, smart devices, driverless vehicles, cryptocurrency data mining, artificial intelligence, internet shopping, content streaming and online gaming to name but a few,as Riello explains.

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UK data centre infrastructure struggling to meet C-suite expectations

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

56% of UK businesses have experienced data centre downtime in 2018.

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Asperitas wins New Energy Challenge

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Energy Management Power & Cooling

The New Energy Challenge 2018 has been won by Asperitas from the Netherlands with their unique liquid-cooling solution for datacentres, called Immersed Computing®. The liquid cooling system is said to be far more sustainable than traditional air-based cooling systems. The jury praised the product for its energy reduction and energy reuse in the fast-growing datacentre market. Asperitas won a €100,000 grant from Shell Ventures.

Alibaba Group joins Low Carbon Patent Pledge

Alibaba Group pledges to make nine energy efficiency patents technology available for free for the...

Schneider Electric joins Infrastructure Masons Partner Program

iMasons provides infrastructure executives and technical professionals an independent forum to...

Equinix uses AI to increase energy efficiency by up to 9% in its Frankfurt data centre

The AI-based cooling system implemented in FR6 with energy intelligence startup etalytics had...

Queen Mary University of London delivers data centre district heating project

Queen Mary University of London is renowned for world-leading research and is committed to...

DigiPlex cuts 25% from customer’s electricity bills in Norway

DigiPlex is the first data centre operator to be approved for the new Norwegian tax relief...

Tariffs and skills shortages threaten AI-ready data centre progress

70% of operators believe that poor quality cabling will compromise long-term AI readiness and 58%...

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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2019

Blockchain, artificial intelligence, empowered edge, privacy and ethics, quantum computing, immersive experiences, augmented analytics, autonomous things and digital twins drive the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019. David Cearley, Gartner Vice President, presented the trends at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

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