Chris Carreiro, CTO, Park Place Technologies, explains why so many AI ambitions are faltering and how organisations can navigate this complex landscape. Core issues to address include the underestimation of AI's total cost of ownership, flexible strategies to account for potential future compliance costs, managing hidden implementation costs and balancing infrastructure with sustainability. Technology-wise, Chris explains the increasing importance of liquid cooling within the data centre.
Read MoreDaniel Thorpe, JLL's Head of Data Center Research, EMEA, outlines the findings of the company’s new "The Future of Quantum Real Estate" report, which details how quantum computing is emerging as the next major technological force, set to profoundly impact real estate – especially the data centre sector – similar to AI's recent revolution. Daniel discusses quantum investments, quantum computing infrastructure requirements, the emergence of global quantum hubs and the likely integration of...
Read MoreBen Miller, Product Marketing Manager at Keysight Technologies, discusses the Keysight Artificial Intelligence (KAI) architecture, a portfolio of end-to-end solutions designed to help customers scale artificial intelligence (AI) processing capacity in data centres by validating AI cluster components using real-world AI workload emulation. Providing system-level interoperability, performance, and efficiency insights, KAI helps operators maximise system performance and pinpoint performance issues...
Read MoreJavier Cavada, President & CEO EMEA, Mitsubishi Power, discusses the many energy-related challenges facing the data centre industry as it tries to address the apparently contradictory demands of AI and the wider digital world at the same time as it continues on the path to Net Zero. He shares some brilliant insights as to the nature and the scale of the power problem and how these challenges can be addressed with technology, not ideology, as the priority.
Read MoreDame Dawn Childs, Chief Executive of Pure Data Centres, explains how the company’s belief that data centres can be the catalyst for urban regeneration, employment and positive environmental change is borne out by the development of its London site. She shares the many ways in which Pure Data Centres demonstrates a very practical commitment to sustainability, not least by setting up a wholly owned subsidiary company, A Healthier Earth (AHE), to deliver climate projects, including Biochar and...
Read MoreOmer Wilson, Chief Marketing Officer at Start Campus, discusses the findings of a recent study, conducted by Start Campus and Copenhagen Economics, which reveals that the Portuguese data centre sector could contribute up to €26 billion to national GDP and support around 50,000 full-time jobs by 2030. Omer outlines the reasons for this anticipated expansion and explains how Start Campus, with its flagship SINES DC campus, is positioned to drive this economic growth with its fully secured grid...
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