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Regional focus promises local business-fuelled growth

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Adriaan Oosthoek, Chairman of Portus Data Centers, outlines the company’s regional data centre aggregation strategy, with the recent Internet Port Hamburg (IPHH) expansion being the most recent development, before going on to discuss wider industry issues, including sustainability, the potential skills shortage and the impending AI ‘explosion’.

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Talking ‘bout the younger generation!

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Xavier Plowright, Senior Analyst – Data Centre Transactions EMEA at JLL, won the Rising Stars Award at last year’s DC Awards. Here he outlines his career to date, shares his thoughts on the data centre industry (the good and the not so good!), with the focus very much on encouraging the younger generation to drive the industry forward - and to enter this year’s Rising Stars Award.

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Sustainability drives the data centre sector

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Jon Healy, Chief Operating Officer at Keysource, offers some great insights into the challenges and opportunities facing the industry in 2024 and beyond, with the many aspects of sustainability dominating the agenda, alongside the advent of AI, the ongoing skills shortage, and one or two supply chain issues.

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Data centre industry adapting well to business and technology challenges

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Darren Watkins, Chief Revenue Officer at VIRTUS Data Centres, highlights the trends and topics commanding the attention of the data centre industry – with sustainability, flexibility, scalability, both megascale and edge facilities, connectivity and latency sensitivity and, last but by no means least, AI making for a busy year ahead.

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Digital technologies help to address the skills shortage

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Mark Fenton, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, explains the ways in which digital twins, augmented and virtual reality and AI can help the data centre industry address the impending skills shortage as well as providing many operational benefits.

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AI looms large over industry’s sustainability roadmap

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Tate Cantrell, Chief Technology Officer at Verne Global, provides some brilliant insights into the data centre industry’s sustainability progress to date and the technology and strategic innovations which will make a difference into the future – warning that the sheer scale of the impending AI explosion could just cause a disruptive re-think of many stakeholders’ Net Zero plans.

Pulsant unveils £10 millionhigh-density investment in Milton Keynes data centre

Rob Coupland, CEO at Pulsant, discusses the company’s £10 million investment in its Milton...

Mind the gap!

Alex Stoewer, CEO of Greenlight Data Centers, outlines the data centre challenge as AI adoption is...

Semsafe at DCW Frankfurt 2025 – Interview with Oliver Callies

At Data Centre World Frankfurt 2025, we spoke with Oliver Callies from Semsafe to hear about the...

Scotland emerging as key growth market for data centre developers

Dan Evans, Associate Director at Lichfields, discusses the results of the company’s recent data...

Global data centre demand surges

Jonathan Kinsey, EMEA Data Centre Lead at JLL, discusses the findings of JLL’s new 2025 Global...

Go tell it on the (Green) Mountain (Part 3)

Digitalisation World talks to Tor Kristian Gyland, CEO of Green Montain, finding out how the...

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