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DCS talks to David Watkins, Solutions Director at VIRTUS Data Centres

Continuing our series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Watkins, from VIRTUS Data Centres, discusses some of the many challenges and opportunities facing his own organisation and the wider data centre industry over the coming months and years, with sustainability the major focus.

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Stellium adds OCP Ready certification

Ed Bissell, Sales Director, Stellium Data Centres, discusses the company’s recent OCP Ready Certification, bringing it many new opportunities to work with the Open Compute Project Foundation community. He explains what this means in terms of the data centre design itself, building on Stellium’s major focus on providing a highly connected, sustainable environment for customers.

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Sustainable fire suppression

Torbjørn Laursen, Inventor of Inergen, discusses the environmental and cost-saving benefits of the Inergen fire extinguishing system, and also explains how Fire Eater’s Inergen System offers several special advantages for data centre owners and operators.

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VIRTUS develops landmark green campus in Berlin Brandenburg region

Christina Mertens, Vice President of Business Development, EMEA, and Darren Watkins, Managing Director, both at VIRTUS Data Centres, discuss the company’s planned 300MW Wustermark Data Centre Campus - poised to become one of Germany's and Europe’s largest scale green data centre campuses and described as a ‘new benchmark for data centre capacity for Cloud and AI in Europe’.

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Systems engineering approach offers electrical infrastructure optimisation

Neil Potter, Business Development Manager for Electrical Systems and Solutions, Eaton, discusses the problems data centre owners and operators have when it comes to optimising the design, implementation, operation and retirement of their electrical infrastructure; and goes on to explain how the company’s recently launched xIntegra solution addresses these challenges by providing an holistic, integrated systems engineering approach to electrical systems design, hardware, software, services and the value chain lifecycle.

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Moving to a multicloud by design world – the smart choice

Steve Young, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Dell Technologies UK, discusses the complexities of digital transformation, focusing on the importance of avoiding multicloud by default by developing a multicloud by design strategy. Properly implemented, such a cloud smart approach should deliver the speed, flexibility and agility which are the hallmarks of today’s leading digital organisations.

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Reinventing DCIM

Jad Jebara, President and CEO of Hyperview, discusses the hybrid infrastructure landscape in which all companies are working out how best to optimise the performance of their applications and, importantly, the infrastructure on which they run. He explains how Hyperview has ‘reinvented’ DCIM to provide a new level of insights and actions to those responsible for operating and managing data centre and wider IT enterprise infrastructure assets – whatever the mix of on-prem, colo, cloud and edge.

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Data centres – time for a technology revolution?

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, shares his usual fascinating and thought-provoking insights, with the focus in this interview on the many ways in which data centres need to work towards sustainability objectives on the path to Net Zero. While progress is being made, Max believes that, all too often, the climate continues to play second fiddle to commercial concerns.

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Equinix reports sustainability successes

Gary Aitkenhead, Senior Vice President, EMEA IBX Operations at Equinix, discusses the company’s recently published 2022 Annual Sustainability Report, highlighting the near 100 percent use of renewable energy, optimising operating temperatures per ASHRAE’s updated recommendations, as well the technology innovations being trialled and/or implemented at various data centre locations across the world.

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Delivering UPS solutions that the data centre demands

David Bond, Director of Centiel SA, Chairman of Centiel UK Ltd., Director of Centiel Asia Pacific, discusses the company’s significant achievements to date as an innovative manufacturer and supplier of UPS systems. He highlights Centiel’s market-leading approach, which has seen it first to introduce transformerless technology, modular UPSs and, most recently, a sustainable solution with a 30-year design life.

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AI adds to sustainability pressures on the data centre

Gisli Kr., Chief Sales Officer at AtNorth. discusses the carbon footprint AI explosion, suggesting that finding the right sustainable data centre to host these AI applications can help contribute to the circular economy. He also provides updates on the company’s third Icelandic data centre, some new hires, and record revenue levels – which in part can be contributed to atNorth’s strong sustainability credentials.

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Building a sustainable digital economy - setting the scene

Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.

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News

Inspired signs a significant CPPA with VIRTUS Data Centres and LID Windfarms to enhance sustainable energy solutions.
Former Darktrace Sales Head, Katie Newton, becomes an Investor & Advisor at ThreatSpike, supporting international growth after its $14m funding success.
Rackspace Technology has appointed Gajen Kandiah as CEO to drive their AI-first multicloud strategy forward from September 3, 2025.
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team partners with SAP for a digital overhaul, embracing ERP solutions in anticipation of the 2026 financial regulations in Formula One.

Expert Opinions

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By Bob Wambach, VP, Portfolio & Strategy, Dynatrace.
By Juan Colina, EMEA Data Centre & IT Segment Leader at Eaton.