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CNDCP Paper outlines potential pitfalls in proposed rating scheme for data centres

Lex Coors, chair of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) board, discusses the organisation’s paper highlighting some areas of concern with the European Commission’s proposal for a sustainability rating scheme for Europe’s data centres. Whilst the Pact has supported the concept and the drafting of the proposal throughout, it believes that in key areas its advice and insight has not been clearly heard. Several areas in particular give cause for concern; the unintended consequences...

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Project Mercury promises the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign LLMs

James Drayson, Co-Founder & CEO of Locai Labs and Mark Boost, Founder and CEO of Civo, explains how Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury - a programme to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign large language models (LLMs), With the aim of empowering UK enterprises and government with secure, home-grown frontier models designed to drive innovation and...

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Water, not power, the deciding factor for data centre location?

Bill Tesarek, President of Alsay, explains that, as Texas accelerates its position as a hub for AI infrastructure, a less visible constraint is beginning to surface: water availability may become the limiting factor for future growth. While most attention remains on power and grid capacity, operators inside water infrastructure systems are seeing early signals that demand tied to AI is scaling faster than the systems designed to support it.

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News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation 2024 event.
Mike Meyer, Managing Director, Portman Partners (Executive Search), provides some fascinating and...
Annabel Helm, Managing Director, Datacloud, techoraco, outlines the success of the Datacloud Global...
Lorraine Wilkinson, Vice President, UK, Equinix, discusses female representation in the technology...
Richard Clifford, Head of Innovation at Keysource, talks through some of the company’s recent...
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Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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