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Schneider Electric accelerates its sustainability strategy

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Company announces six long-term commitments, with aim to reach eleven concrete sustainability goals by 2025.

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Report reveals data centre staffing challenge

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Uptime Institute has published its Global Data Center Staffing Forecast 2021-2025, the digital infrastructure industry’s first comprehensive forecast of workforce needs — by region, by data center type, and by staff minimum education requirements.

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Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact commits to ambitious sustainability action

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Twenty-five companies and seventeen associations from across Europe agree to take specific steps to make data centres climate neutral by 2030.

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Tosca Debt Capital backs Keysource MBO

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Keysource, a specialist in data centres and critical environments, has successfully completed a management buyout (MBO), led by Stephen Whatling. The transaction was backed by Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) and Shawbrook Bank, who provided equity finance and debt funding respectively. Terms of the deal are undisclosed.

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Survey assesses Covid's lasting legacy

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A return to pre-COVID levels of confidence regarding future demand for datacentres was an encouraging finding from the latest independent industry survey, which captures the views of over 3000 senior datacentre professionals across Europe, including owners, operators, developers, consultants and end users.

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BCS appoints for German expansion

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Business Critical Solutions (BCS), the specialist services provider to the international digital infrastructure industry, has appointed a General Manager, Germany to support its continued expansion in the region.

AMPYR Distributed Energy acquires Shawton Energy

Pioneering distributed energy firm ADE acquires Shawton Energy, enhancing its solar market...

Nearly half of European data centres have no energy efficiency objectives in place

Research, commissioned by The Green Grid, has found that while the majority of organisations...

Johnson Controls advances data centre sustainability

The Data Centre Solutions platform delivers innovative, energy-efficient and water-saving cooling...

Data centre sector meets efficiency target

Provisional results from the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) for Data Centres suggest that the...

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%...

Know your carbon

Are the differences between net zero and carbon neutral well understood by those with an interest...

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