Power & Cooling
Why microgrids are the solution to data centres’ intense power demands
TJ Surbella, Strategic Planning Director, and Ron Beck, Senior Director, AspenTech, discuss how self-sufficient energy systems help enhance operational efficiency, sustainability and resilience, offering data centres ...
Forget cooling: Data centres’ biggest hurdle is now power
As AI technologies advance, their escalating power demands are rendering traditional data centre designs outdated. Gary Tinkler, Managing Director of Data Centres, Northern Data Group, explores how AI is reshaping the...
Can we sustain the digital age? Balancing data growth with resource...
The world has an insatiable need for data, which inevitably leads to increased energy usage and water wastage. Keeping up with digital demand while balancing sustainability is a major challenge, Steve Dawson, Closed...
The next generation of modular UPS
Chris Cutler, Business Development Manager at Riello UPS, explores the evolution of ultra-high efficiency modular UPS systems and how technological advances are helping data centre operators reduce their Total Cost of...
Embracing Direct-to-Chip cooling for an energy-efficient AI era
Josh Claman, CEO, Accelsius, argues data centres are the plumbing for all things digital, and the desire for power isn’t diminishing any time soon. Consequently, operators should be utilising all emissions to initiate m...
If the energy crisis is over, why are data centre operators still paying...
Data centre operators and owners are facing a huge challenge when it comes to energy prices. Despite the energy crisis becoming less prevalent, many are still being charged more than double the normal cost for their...
Can we sustain the digital age? Balancing data growth with resource...
The world has an insatiable need for data, which inevitably leads to increased energy usage and water wastage. Keeping up with digital demand while balancing sustainability is a major challenge, Steve Dawson, Closed...
What to consider for data centre cooling in a shifting landscape
Keith Dunnavant, VP Offer Strategy & Portfolio Management, Munters, reviews cooling basics, current trends and peeks into the future of data centre cooling. As AI’s rapid evolution fuels the need for...
Does every data centre need generators?
The industry needs to re-evaluate the need for total generator backup capacity, according to Jamie Cameron, Associate Director, Cundall. The industry standard of ‘5 9s’ availability may be achievable without gen...
Solar plus storage is a win-win for Nigeria’s booming data centre...
In the next five years, Nigeria’s data centre industry is set to explode, doubling its capacity from 116MW in 2024 to a forecasted 226MW in 2029 bringing high bandwidth speeds to urban areas. But with a failing...
How to safeguard your data centre with CFD simulation
CFD safeguards the data centre by simulating failure scenarios that enable data centre managers to better understand and design the appropriate redundancy for power and cooling failure scenarios. Gordon Johnson,...
Ensuring uninterrupted data centre performance through critical power...
As data centres evolve and grow in complexity, investing in advanced monitoring technologies is crucial to ensure uninterrupted service delivery and maintain a competitive edge in the digital economy. As power issues...
Advanced cooling advances science: One university’s immersion-cooled, s...
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) needed to upgrade its powerful Lonestar5 supercomputer to keep up with its several thousand projects and continue pushing the boundaries of supercomputing. The organisation realised...
Next-gen HPC delivers sustainability, efficiency and lower TCO for BNP...
BNP Paribas, atNorth and Dell Technologies have collaborated in order to deploy HPC with 50% less energy usage, 85% less CO2 output and lower TCO. To deliver more value to its customers and fuel emerging HPC needs,...
Three unlocks 12.5% data centre cooling energy reduction in under 10 weeks...
Rapid thermal optimisation using EkkoSoft Critical AI-powered software helps Three’s data centre team to meet corporate demand for 5% total energy saving across its legacy sites. Shamim Mohamed, Data Centre Operations a...
Ireland’s largest university upgrades data centre cooling system with S...
The Future Campus project at University College Dublin (UCD) called for space utilised by facility plant and equipment to be given up for development to support the student population. Total Power Solutions, an Elite...
O2 cools down data centres to save energy as 4G and 5G hot up
As the world heats up, data centre facilities must discover smarter ways to cool down. Jorge Ribeiro Rousse, Director of Service Platform Strategy and Engineering, Virgin Media O2, discusses how it implemented...
Abu Dhabi Municipality selects Huawei to build its Disaster Recovery data...
As an increase in data volume and new services dominates data centre growth and development, Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) needed to update its data centre setup in order to meet future requirements. It therefore...
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