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Collaboration is critical to data centre industry’s ongoing success

Jim Hart, CEO of BCS, discusses how the industry needs to focus on its ability to innovate continuously, adopt new technologies, and implement strategies that balance performance, cost, and sustainability - adapting to meet these growing demands while mitigating the associated challenges. Jim covers key topics such as AI, sustainability, edge, modular and scalable design, advanced cooling technologies, regulation and skills.

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What does an AI workload-ready UPS look like?

Louis McGarry, Sales and Marketing Director, Centiel discusses how AI is creating heavy demand for power protection - with projects that require multi megawatts of power for data centres and AI data processing facilities that rely on power protection equipment that can be scaled-up and rapidly deployed. Louis explains that, while efficiency and sustainability in UPS systems is now a given, customer choice now comes down to quality and also how big and how quickly can UPS systems be scaled and deployed. Centiel will be demonstrating an AI workload-ready UPS at the forthcoming DCW event in London.

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Developing the most sustainable, scalable and resilient data centres

Gareth Williams, Director, UK, India, Middle East, and Africa Data Centres and Technology Leader, Arup, outlines a “good neighbour” approach to data centre development – one that integrates community needs, environmental stewardship, and technological innovation to create projects that benefit all. He covers nature and biodiversity, decarbonisation – what net zero really means, repurposing assets, ‘one water’ – SuDS, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, wetlands and ponds and (renewable and alternative) energy options.

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Global data centre demand surges

Jonathan Kinsey, EMEA Data Centre Lead at JLL, discusses the findings of JLL’s new 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, exploring the relationship between AI, sustainability and investment demands. Jonathan is confident that, despite certain challenges, including supply constraints and electricity limitations in some markets, the outlook for the data centre sector remains highly favourable. The industry is poised for continued growth, driven by AI adoption, increased data processing demands and ongoing technological advancements.

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Five principles for a sustainable approach to GenAI

Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell Technologies, and Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Director at BT, discuss the challenges and opportunities organisations face as they seek to leverage around GenAI as a key digital transformation tool - needing to find ways to minimise the environmental impacts of the technology whilst maximising innovation. They share a five-point plan to help organisations sustainably adopt and run GenAI.

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Five principles for sustainably adopting and running GenAI

Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell Technologies, and Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Director at BT, discuss the challenges and opportunities organisations face as they seek to leverage around GenAI as a key digital transformation tool - needing to find ways to minimise the environmental impacts of the technology whilst maximising innovation. They share a five-point plan to help organisations sustainably adopt and run GenAI.

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News

New Palo Alto Networks data shows 82% of UK organisations confident in their use of AI, despite AI being identified as biggest cyber risk for 2025.
The Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has appointed Mike Meyer, Managing Director of Portman Partners, the expert Executive Search business for data centre people, to its Executive Board.
Global Switch has formed a partnership with AI and cloud solutions provider AVANT, bringing the company’s portfolio of low latency, network dense data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific to AVANT’s UK and...
The operations team deployed AI to visualise, troubleshoot, and rapidly resolve networking issues in 62 MEA countries to optimise service experience.

Expert Opinions

ABB’s Data Centres Portfolio Manager, Danel Turk, analyses the root causes of data centres’ increasing power demand, and proposes the solutions that will keep data centres online and efficient as they...
By Stewart Hunwick, Field CTO for the Storage Platforms and Solutions Team, Dell Technologies.
By Dr Yvonne Bernard, Hornetsecurity’s CTO.
By Alasdair Stapleton, Product Manager at ETB Technologies Ltd.