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110MW microgrid developed for Dublin data centre

Ben Pritchard, CEO of AVK, discusses the launch of what is believed to be Europe’s first, large-scale, 110 MW on-site microgrid, developed to support early phase site operational resilience. Located within Pure DC’s Dublin campus, the on site energy system provides the opportunity for dispatchable capacity to support data centre operations during initial development phases, prior to full integration with the national electricity system as grid connection capacity becomes available. Over...

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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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Vertiv expands liquid cooling capabilities with acquisition of thermal labs

Vertiv acquires Strategic Thermal Labs to enhance its capabilities in advanced liquid-cooling technologies and support high-density computing environments.

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National Data Centre Day launches #BackToSchool campaign

12th September 2026 marks the second year of the awareness day, created to help recognise the role data centres play in powering the UK's digital economy and the countries AI ambitions.

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Johnson Controls releases second data centre reference

A globally repeatable blueprint for cooling gigawattscale AI factories efficiently and sustainably.

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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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56% of UK businesses have experienced data centre downtime in 2018.
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Deep Green has announced AI-ready colocation capacity at its Urmston facility in Manchester, with...
Kohler Power System expands its KD Series™ line of industrial generators with a new model, KD800...
A significant 85 percent of UK data centre businesses report confidence in the cost-effectiveness,...
Innventure has established a new company, Accelsius, to commercialise Nokia’s groundbreaking...
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Just how flexible is your data center cooling system? The incredibly agile and efficient Liebert DSE Free-Cooling system is designed around a single platform that can be configured in many ways for placement indoors or outdoors. With more than 5,000 installations globally and growing each day, it’s the most popular cooling system in the Vertiv stable of offerings.

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