Peter Huang, Global President of Thermal Management & Data Centre at Castrol, discusses the rising importance of liquid cooling to meet the growing demands of AI, ML, and edge computing, explaining how bp Castrol is positioning itself as a thermal management specialist, building a global, end-to-end liquid cooling platform for the data centre industry. Peter shares the company’s “Forward” vision to become the leading liquid cooling orchestrator and partner-of-choice for global partners and customers.
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Following on from our highly successful North-East data centre roadshow, which took place in Newcastle earlier this year, we keep the region’s data centre conversation going, as Mike Hoy, CTO at Pulsant, Zac Potts, Technical Director, Sudlows and Matt Evans, CEO at Apx Data Centre Solutions, discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing the infrastructure required to deliver the data centres and associated digital infrastructure required to realise the North East AI Growth Zone’s full potential. All three are overwhelmingly positive in terms of the region’s role in underpinning the UK’s AI growth ambitions.
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Following on from our highly successful North-East data centre roadshow, which took place in Newcastle earlier this year, we keep the region’s data centre conversation going, as Ed Bissell, Sales Director at Stellium Data Centres, Lewis Cobb, Global Director at Durata and Jordan Toulson, Senior Product Manager at QiO Technologies Ltd, discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing the infrastructure required to deliver the data centres and associated digital infrastructure required to realise the North East AI Growth Zone’s full potential. All three are overwhelmingly positive in terms of the region’s role in underpinning the UK’s AI growth ambitions.
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Richard Petrie, CTO at LINX, discusses the recent Uptime Institute’s Annual Outages Analysis Report which finds that networking and connectivity continue to sit at the top of the most common causes of IT outages, reinforcing the importance of resilience in this area. As organisations face growing pressure from network congestion, external threats and increasing reliance on third-party providers, resilience across both network and data centre infrastructure is becoming critical. Richard explains that the backbone of a strong redundancy strategy is a secondary fabric that allows data to be rerouted during periods of disruption or risk, helping organisations remain operational even when the primary network is compromised.
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Rob Knoth, Sr Solution Marketing Group Director, Cadence provides brilliant insight into the company’s expanded partnership with NVIDIA to deliver accelerated solutions across agentic AI, physics-based simulation and digital twins to unlock new levels of productivity and accelerate next generation engineering design flows across semiconductor design, physical AI systems and hyperscale AI factories.
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James Earl, CEO of Future Energy Networks (FEN), outlines how gas networks received well over 100 connection enquiries from data centre developers in 2024 and 2025. Published by FEN – the representative body for the UK gas networks – the figures demonstrate how enquiries have risen exponentially, with around three times as many submitted in 2025 compared to 2024. Thiss dramatic increase in the number of data centre enquiries to gas networks reflects the long delays developers are encountering in accessing the electricity grid. James explains that, to get ahead in the global AI race, bolster economic growth and secure future investment, the UK, and the data centre sector specifically, must harness the immense potential of both gas and electricity systems.
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Rahul Powar, explains that, as cyber threats increasingly target critical infrastructure, a new analysis from Red Sift exposes major email security weaknesses across the US’s largest data center operators. Despite powering the country’s digital economy, more than a quarter of the top 100 data centres fail to enforce basic email authentication, leaving the door wide open to domain spoofing and phishing.
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Andy Bates, CISO/Chief Product Officer at StonesThro, explains how the company, working in partnership with Cornerstone, a leading mobile infrastructure services provider, has successfully executed a groundbreaking Proof of Concept (POC) for micro-edge computing. The trials have demonstrated that distributed architectures can deliver sub-10ms latency, essential for many IOT applications, while significantly reducing the carbon footprint of AI and data processing. As Andy summarises, taking the compute power usually locked away in massive warehouses and deploying it in the regions where it is actually needed and makes the cloud local, sovereign, and sustainable.
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Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO at OpenSpace, explains how “visual intelligence” is becoming a new layer of infrastructure for how large projects get built, outlining how the company’s technology has evolved from a jobsite documentation tool into a platform now embedded in the day-to-day operations of major global construction projects – particularly as AI-driven demand accelerates data centre builds.
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David Rubenstein, Shareholder in law firm Polsinelli’s Real Estate Practice Group in Seattle, provides insights into the challenges data centre developers face regarding community opposition and considerations they should keep in mind while navigation moratoriums and widespread opposition.
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