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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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Data centre developers needs to address community opposition

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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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 of which could damage Europe’s competition and growth agendas in the digital era.

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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 accelerate Britain’s AI independence.

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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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Data centre market at the beginning of a new infrastructure cycle

Jake Bush, RLB Head of Supply Chain and Procurement, discusses the findings of the company’s latest data centre trends report, which finds the industry at the beginning of a new infrastructure cycle after a year of recalibration, but success will be determined less by demand and more by the ability to deliver at scale. Jake explains that the future of Europe’s data centre expansion is not dependent on demand, but whether there is the ability to deliver, with structural challenges to the next wave of digital infrastructure including limited access to power, permitting delays and renewed pressure on materials, equipment and specialist labour. 

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The DCA and the Carbon Trust are partnering to drive sustainable growth and transition to Net Zero in the data centre sector.
Outdated infrastructure is stalling AI scaling, with real-time data streaming rising in importance for success.
Vertiv acquires ThermoKey to strengthen its thermal management portfolio, benefiting AI factories and high-density data centres.
Datacloud Global Congress 2026 at Cannes set new records, gathering global digital infrastructure leaders for strategic discussions and innovative solutions.

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