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Fuel cells central to Centrica’s power blueprint

Robert Booker, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Centrica, discusses the company’s ‘Navigating The Energy Labyrinth – the blueprint for power data centres’ report, focusing on the industry’s twin challenges of (steeply) rising power demand and grid constraints/resilience concerns. Robert details the work that Centrica is doing to help data centre owners and operators address this situation, not least via the recently announced infrastructure partnership with Delta...

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PIC100 platform enters high volume production

Sylvie Gellida, General Manager, Optical and RF Foundry Division, STMicroelectronics, discusses the implications of the company entering high-volume production of its PIC100 silicon photonics platform to support AI infrastructure demand. With plans to quadruple capacity by 2027, further expand in 2028 and with PIC100 through-silicon via (TSV) on ST’s technology roadmap, the company is delivering the benefits of higher bandwidth, lower latency, and greater energy efficiency as AI workloads...

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Industry under-prepared for surge in AI data centre demand

Tim Collier, director and UK data centre lead at Turner & Townsend, explains what’s needed to build confidence in the industry and to deliver data centres on schedule, how to navigate heightened competition for power and skills, and what the company’s latest Data Centre Construction Cost Index – which analyses costs and trends in 52 data centre markets worldwide – reveals for emerging solutions for improving productivity and the complexities of building especially AI data centres.

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Community collaboration and transparency - key to data centre success in the AI era

Edgar Van Essen, Managing Director, CCO and Partner for Switch Datacenters, outlines a dramatic decline in water use, new cooperative stakeholder models including green residual heat exchange networks, and a clear pathway to reach net-positive impact by 2040, as reported in the company’s 2025 Sustainability Report. With plans for six new builds and more, Edgar highlights how Switch Datacenters is growing its footprint to over 1GW capacity in the coming years while supporting local societies...

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What it takes to deliver a data centre

Katie Coulson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Skanska Advanced Technology, discusses the many factors which need to be considered when delivering a data centre design and build, including the weather, available labour, power and water. Katie goes on to explain how modular, repeatable design and construction techniques and the harnessing of AI are helping to address the challenges of delivering new facilities as quickly as possible for the current AI boom.

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Ushering in a new era of AI data centre performance

Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge, the company’s GPU HBM cooling solution and introduces the idea of Thermal Fabric, a real-time thermal control platform that transforms cooling from a reactive cost centre into a system level intelligence layer without the instability tax.

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Anna Rantala, Marketing Manager at BCS, discusses the company’s new branding – a refresh that...
David Hurtado, Managing Director of Quetta Data Centers, discusses the impact of AI on the data...
Lucy Darling, a partner at Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB UK), discusses the findings of the...
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Mary-Ann Clarke, AECOM’s Director of Data Centre Delivery, believes that developers, utilities,...
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Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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