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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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AI accelerates adversaries and reshapes the attack surface

Zeki Turedi, CrowdStrike Field CTO Europe, discusses the findings of the company’s 2026 Global Threat Report, which reveals that AI is accelerating the adversary and expanding the enterprise attack surface. The Global Threat Report makes clear that as innovation accelerates, adversary exploitation follows. Zeki explains that cybersecurity is entering an AI arms race. Breakout time is the clearest signal of how intrusion has changed. Adversaries are moving from initial access to lateral movement in minutes. AI is compressing the time between intent and execution while turning enterprise AI systems into targets. Security teams must operate faster than the adversary to win.

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Financial visibility, profitability, and exit readiness in the MSP market

In this conversation, Daniel Welling, Co-Founder of MSP Finance Team, shares his perspective on the financial realities facing managed service providers today. He explores why profitability can be difficult to track, how gaps in reporting develop, and what stronger financial visibility can unlock. The discussion also looks ahead, touching on exit readiness and how increasing private equity activity is shaping expectations for MSP performance and long-term value.

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Architecting the agentic enterprise: How AI is reshaping modern cloud platforms

In this interview, Cathleen Nelson, VP Cloud Partnership at WSO2, discusses how enterprises are moving from treating AI as an add-on to embedding it at the heart of modern digital architecture. The conversation explores unified agentic systems, responsible AI at scale in regulated industries, and why deploy-anywhere, low-lock-in cloud strategies are becoming critical as organisations transition AI from experimentation to production.

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Cooling-as-a-Service eliminates the complexity of managing the liquid cooling technology loop

John Shultz, Chief Product Officer, AI and Learning Officer for Salute, discusses the company’s collaboration with Ecolab, enabling customers to protect their AI investments by reducing complexity and mitigating risks in direct-to-chip (DTC) liquid cooling. Though this collaboration, Ecolab’s Cooling-as-a-Service (CaaS) program will become integral to Salute’s DTC Liquid Cooling Operations Service. Ecolab’s CaaS solves one of the most complex challenges for liquid cooling in data centres by simplifying the management of the technology loop, which is the centrepiece of DTC cooling systems.

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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 time, the campus is intended to operate as part of a hybrid energy configuration, combining grid supplied electricity with on site infrastructure designed to enhance flexibility, resilience and system stability.

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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 and economies and ensuring the minimum possible impact on the environment. He also explains how the data centre industry can transform its image by pursuing deep integration with local communities and value chains, through collaboration with municipalities, grid operators, and local stakeholders from the earliest planning stages.

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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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Switch to a strategic procurement approach when it comes to switchgear

Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, Director at Prism Power Group, highlights the fact that switchgear is fast becoming one of the biggest hidden constraints in UK (and elssehwere) commercial construction - with data centres absorbing enormous volumes of low voltage and medium voltage switchgear, along with AI workloads, hyperscale cloud expansion and government backing of digital infrastructure, demand has raced into a different gear entirely. Adhum explains that, as a result, switchgear is no longer a late-stage procurement item that can be slotted in once the design is largely complete. It has become a critical path risk that requires early design freeze and early engagement with manufacturers.

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Why 24/7 IT defence is no longer just a ‘Nice-To-Have’ for SMBs

Nirav Shah, Founder & Director of Technical Excellence at Infrassist, explains that 24x7 IT monitoring and defence is essential for SMBs as an often distributed workforce needs protection around the clock, not just during the ‘normal’ working day. Nirav shares examples of where a lack of round-the-clock monitoring led to serious consequences for a business, warns that SMBs are very much in the sights of today’s bad actors and shares some valuable advice as to how organisations can improve their out-of-hours security posture.

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Two-phase cooling helps maximise AI performance

Shahar Belkin, Chief Evangelist at ZutaCore, explains how the company’s OmniTherm™ cold plate enables waterless two-phase cooling for manufacturers building servers with the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs in a single-slot PCIe form factor - supporting full-power operation in standard enterprise and AI cloud server environments. OmniTherm enables a transition to two-phase liquid cooling without introducing water inside the server. The single-slot design allows operators to increase accelerator density in standard server architectures while capturing heat into a liquid loop, reducing reliance on extreme fan speeds that can create excessive noise, waste power and cause challenging operating conditions in the data centre.

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Removing a fundamental bottleneck to AI data centre growth

Sean Burke, CEO at Enteligent, positions 800V DC to 50V DC as the ‘missing piece’ in AI data centre power design. While 800VDC distribution solves the upstream limitations of traditional AC infrastructure, converting it directly to a 50VDC server bus within the rack addresses the final conversion bottleneck at the server level. Sean explains that the combination of 800VDC facility distribution with rack-level 800VDC-to-50VDC conversion represents a complete, DC-native power architecture that aligns with the realities of modern data centre requirements.

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