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Continuing unprecedented growth in the datacentre sector may be at risk due to increasing concerns around scarce resource and rising labour costs according to the latest industry survey from Business Critical Solutions (BCS), the specialist professional services provider to the international digital infrastructure industry.

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Data centres urged to re-evaluate contingency plans

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Many data centres are in danger of experiencing significant downtime during a power failure as it’s revealed that one quarter of UK energy decision makers do not have a contingency plan in place.

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Vertiv to list on NYSE

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Creates publicly traded, pure-play critical digital infrastructure provider.

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INVESTORS EXPECT BOOM IN EUROPEAN DATA CENTRES IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS

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The vast majority (92%) of debt and equity investors surveyed expect the overall value of investment into Europe’s data centre infrastructure to increase over the next 24 months, according to research commissioned by DLA Piper and published today.

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Manchester data centre invests £1.5 million into energy efficiencies

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TeleData installs smart energy battery storage system to reduce carbon footprint.

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Digital Realty advances renewable energy solutions

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Digital Realty is expanding its renewable energy and sustainability initiatives with a long-term power purchase agreement to source solar power for a portion of its Northern Virginia portfolio and a utility green tariff to supply renewable power to its Oregon data center development project. In total, these agreements will add 227,000 megawatt-hours of new clean energy to the regional electric grids where Digital Realty operates, enough electricity to meet the needs of 27,900 homes for a year.

Rehlko completes acquisition of The Wilmott Group

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Data centres need to address the rise of complex digital infrastructure

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Prometheus Hyperscale and XL Batteries partner

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More than eight out of ten organizations see open innovation as critical for addressing sustainability challenges

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Adrian Jones joins the CNet team as Technical Architect

CNet Training is delighted to welcome Adrian Jones to its team as Technical Architect.

White is the colour, data centres are the game

Panduit research study verifies significant cost and energy savings achievable using white...

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