Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President & General Manager for Telehouse Europe, discusses the company’s new Telehouse West Two data centre, purpose-built to support the rapid adoption of emerging technologies such as AI. The new facility will integrate both air and liquid cooling technologies to meet growing demand for high density compute environments. The data centre has been designed to BREEAM Excellent standards, indicating a high level of environmental performance against a widely...
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Lucy Darling, a partner at Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB UK), discusses the findings of the organisation’s recent Construction Market Intelligence Q3 2025 report, which finds that power constraints in London have prompted increased data centre investment in other regions, including Greater Manchester, Newcastle, Wales and Scotland. Lucy also outlines some of the other challenges facing the data centre sector, including tariffs introduced during Trump’s presidency, combined with environmental...
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Jackson Vo, President of Gridmatic Retail, discusses the pressures on Texas as a rapidly developing data centre hub, with operators asking the same urgent question: how can we secure reliable power while staying competitive on cost and advancing carbon-free goals? Jackson explains how Gridmatic, an AI-powered retail energy provider, is working with data centre customers like EdgeConneX to answer that question – by unlocking the hidden flexibility in large electrical loads.
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Lee Myall, CEO of Neos Networks, outlines how, over the past decade, there’s been a huge amount of investment in last-mile fibre builds, but core fibre networks across the country have received much less attention. Without them, workloads cannot move between data centres, data cannot be trained, and investments stall. The UK has the ambition, the demand and the regional readiness to lead in AI, but, as Lee explains, if we don’t address fibre gaps, we risk losing out on one of the greatest...
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Abel Gnanakumar, Vice President, Commercial HVAC - Asia, Middle East & Africa at Copeland, discusses the surge in data centre development across Asia and its unique climate challenges, the twin drivers of AI and sustainability, the critical role of cooling management and Copeland’s innovations that support efficient cooling without comprising reliability, uptime rates, and business continuity.
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Anna Rantala, Marketing Manager at BCS, discusses the company’s new branding – a refresh that is about showing the world the BCS that already exists - modern, dynamic, and human at its core. Anna explains how the new branding is the platform to grow into the next decade and ‘gives space to our people and culture, the part of BCS that clients always tell me makes the biggest difference. It might feel like a big change, but the truth is we’ve been this brand all along. We just weren’t...
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