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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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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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GRDs help future-proof data centres

Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps, grid constraints, and enormous computational intensity, driven by AI, create the perfect storm. Matt believes Global Reference Designs (GRDs) could be the key to deliver future-proof data centres that are both resilient and able to flex in line with demand.

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Apprentice celebrates data centre success

Laura Allwood, now a fully qualified Project Manager at Arcadis, outlines her journey from Apprentice Project Manager to her current role - along the way obtaining a degree in Construction Management and specialising in the data centre sector.

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Sydney seen as the AI sweet spot

Paul Christensen, Macquarie Data Centres General Manager, discusses the company’s 47MW IC3 Super West Sydney AI data centre, in the context of its plans to build out some 200MW of AI and cloud capacity in the city. He shares some great insights as to the challenges and opportunities of building out AI data centre infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, and is confident that Macquarie’s successful data centre track record sees it well positioned to play a key role in the growth of AI and...

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DCS talks to Steve Hone, Co-Founder and CEO of the Data Centre Alliance (DCA), finding out more...
Rob Mather, Sales Director at Power Control Ltd (PCL), offers some thoughts on the role that UPS...
Nick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch...
Tim Collier, director and UK data centre lead at Turner & Townsend, explains what’s needed to...
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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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