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Unlocking Africa’s digital infrastructure future - data centre developments are key

Conrad Purcell, partner at Haynes Boone, explains how data centre development in sub-Saharan Africa is accelerating, driven by rising digital demand and infrastructure investment. While project finance through DFI lending offers a viable route for funding these projects, they still come with challenges such as power grid reliability, political and social instability and contractor limitations. Despite these hurdles, strategic risk mitigation, market appropriate contract drafting and surging...

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Higher loads, faster builds: six trends defining data centres in 2026

This article was developed jointly by engineers from Black & White Engineering’s global offices, with contributions from: Wyn Turnbull, Yiping Lin, Niamh O’Halloran, Wesley Daniel, Rashi Negi, Aurore Knight, Adam Asquith, Eduardo Golloy Jr, Stuart Bridges, David Williams, Chris Nisbet, Charlie Bater and Kevin Laugo.

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Mind the gap!

Alex Stoewer, CEO of Greenlight Data Centers, outlines the data centre challenge as AI adoption is moving faster than infrastructure build out. Greenlight builds for the real world, one where extreme weather is normal, grid instability is rising and every hour of downtime costs millions. Alex discusses how Greenlight shortens build timelines through early utility partnerships, de-risks projects with local stakeholder engagement and future-proofs facilities against the kinds of failures that...

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Patmos expands Kansas City’s AI capability

Joe Morgan, Patmos’ Chief Operating Officer, outlines the company’s expansion of its AI data centre facility in downtown Kansas City, and the immediate availability of 10MW of new colocation space for high-density GPU, HPC and AI infrastructure. Purpose-built for Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and GPU workloads, the Kansas City facility is the first Patmos AI Campus - transforming disused industrial buildings into advanced data centres alongside spaces for...

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Telehouse breaks ground on new £275m data centre, Telehouse West Two

Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President & General Manager for Telehouse Europe, discusses the company’s new Telehouse West Two data centre, purpose-built to support the rapid adoption of emerging technologies such as AI. The new facility will integrate both air and liquid cooling technologies to meet growing demand for high density compute environments. The data centre has been designed to BREEAM Excellent standards, indicating a high level of environmental performance against a widely...

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Capacity demand increases despite ‘more cautious’ construction environment

Lucy Darling, a partner at Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB UK), discusses the findings of the organisation’s recent Construction Market Intelligence Q3 2025 report, which finds that power constraints in London have prompted increased data centre investment in other regions, including Greater Manchester, Newcastle, Wales and Scotland. Lucy also outlines some of the other challenges facing the data centre sector, including tariffs introduced during Trump’s presidency, combined with environmental...

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Equinix is expanding private network access to Microsoft Azure via Azure ExpressRoute on Platform...
Norwegian data center company Green Mountain and German power company KMW recently marked the start...
New debt facility, provided by leading data centre lender, Deutsche Bank, is extendable to £356...
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced a significant investment of US$3.2 billion...
atNorth brings data center specialist, Stephen Donovan, on board to drive the company's strategic...
Kao Data and Virgin Media Business Wholesale – the wholesale fixed connectivity arm of Virgin...
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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

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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