As i3 celebrates its 10th birthday, Ed Ansett, Founder & Chairman, reflects on some of the major changes he has witnessed in the data centre industry over the past 10 years, with sustainability looming large as the major, ongoing challenge. Ed believes that the industry has a major role to play in terms of helping to address the more general energy crisis being experienced in many countries, as it also seeks to make positive progress on the path to Net Zero.
Watch OnlineTom Kingham, Director Engineering Solutions Europe at CyrusOne, discusses the importance of truly efficient water usage within the data centre, while also providing a fascinating insight into the possibilities of fusion power as a virtually unlimited, clean future energy source – and one that is not dependent on the weather!
Watch OnlineGregory Lebourg, Global Environment Director at OVHCloud, emphasises the company’s environmental leadership position as he explains its newly developed hybrid immersion cooling technology and also shares details of the soon to be released carbon calculator. Gregory believes that data centre operators and cloud providers who cannot demonstrate a comprehensive commitment to sustainability face a challenging future.
Watch OnlineYuval Bachar, Founder and CEO of ECL, outlines the why, when and how of what he believes is the world’s first modular, sustainable, off-grid data centre that uses green hydrogen as its primary power source. ECL plans to deliver data centres in 1MW blocks, with 99.9999% uptime.
Watch OnlineDanel Turk, Solution Portfolio Manager, Data Centers at ABB, explains the company’s sustainability five-step strategy, before going on to discuss technology innovations, such as microgrids, battery energy storage, fuel cells and variable speed drives, which can all make a positive contribution to improving and optimising data centre environmental performance.
Watch OnlineTim Loake, VP, Infrastructure Solutions Group, UK at Dell Technologies, discusses the many ways in which the data centre industry can improve its sustainability credentials. The conversation includes some great insights into technology innovations around, liquid cooling, renewables automation and IT hardware, as well as the importance of ensuring end users are optimising the use of their existing digital infrastructure.
Watch OnlineSpencer Pitts, Digital Workspace Chief Technologist, VMware, discusses the company’s research on the post-pandemic and hybrid workplace, before sharing some valuable insights as to how a digital first approach, that prioritises the digital employee experience, can bring major benefits to any organisation, so long as the appropriate combination of company culture and technology solutions is in embraced.
Watch OnlineChris Pennington, Director of Energy & Sustainability at Iron Mountain, shares some fascinating insights on the sustainability challenges facing the data centre industry, alongside detailing many of the ways in which the sector is already making significant progress to reduce its carbon footprint.
Watch OnlineLorraine Wilkinson, Vice President, UK, Equinix, discusses female representation in the technology industry and shares how technology companies can better support their female employees and encourage more women to enter the industry.
Watch OnlineSteven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.
Watch OnlineNick Ewing, Managing Director at EfficiencyIT, explains the thinking behind the company’s launch of the ModularDC range of prefabricated data centre solutions. Fully customisable, highly secure and application specific, the solutions also address the key challenges of supply chain resilience, speed of delivery and sustainability – while the immersive design process harnesses virtual reality (VR) to ensure delivery of truly optimised data centre infrastructure.
Watch OnlineGerard Thibault, CTO at Kao Data, reflects on his electrical engineering career, with 40+ years spent in the data centre sector. He provides both valuable and fascinating insights into how the data centre industry has, and has not, changed over time and remains optimistic that today’s twin objectives of digitalisation and sustainability will remain compatible.
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