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Developing the most sustainable, scalable and resilient data centres

Gareth Williams, Director, UK, India, Middle East, and Africa Data Centres and Technology Leader, Arup, outlines a “good neighbour” approach to data centre development – one that integrates community needs, environmental stewardship, and technological innovation to create projects that benefit all. He covers nature and biodiversity, decarbonisation – what net zero really means, repurposing assets, ‘one water’ – SuDS, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, wetlands and ponds and (renewable and alternative) energy options.

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Global data centre demand surges

Jonathan Kinsey, EMEA Data Centre Lead at JLL, discusses the findings of JLL’s new 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, exploring the relationship between AI, sustainability and investment demands. Jonathan is confident that, despite certain challenges, including supply constraints and electricity limitations in some markets, the outlook for the data centre sector remains highly favourable. The industry is poised for continued growth, driven by AI adoption, increased data processing demands and ongoing technological advancements.

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Five principles for a sustainable approach to GenAI

Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell Technologies, and Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Director at BT, discuss the challenges and opportunities organisations face as they seek to leverage around GenAI as a key digital transformation tool - needing to find ways to minimise the environmental impacts of the technology whilst maximising innovation. They share a five-point plan to help organisations sustainably adopt and run GenAI.

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Five principles for sustainably adopting and running GenAI

Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell Technologies, and Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Director at BT, discuss the challenges and opportunities organisations face as they seek to leverage around GenAI as a key digital transformation tool - needing to find ways to minimise the environmental impacts of the technology whilst maximising innovation. They share a five-point plan to help organisations sustainably adopt and run GenAI.

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AI and bespoke cloud services central to DataVita's expansion plans

Danny Quinn, Managing Director of DataVita, discusses the reasons behind the company’s record-breaking financial results – a new focus on being Scotland’s leading provider of AI-ready data centres - of supporting cutting-edge workloads with up to 400 kW per rack; the National Cloud, which delivers tailored services for workloads unsuitable for public cloud providers, prioritising data sovereignty, cost transparency, and simplified pricing models, while addressing issues related to cloud repatriation and critical workloads; and plans to reach 500 MW data centre capacity in central Scotland over the next five years.

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Further expansion in Finland for Verne

Dominic Ward, CEO at sustainable data centre provider, Verne, discusses the company’s expansion plans in Finland – with the acquisition of a strategic site in Mantsala, to build its fifth Nordic data centre, as well as the acquisition of the land at its existing Helsinki data center campus, securing room for future expansion. Dominic also shares some fascinating insights into the data centre industry more generally – setting AI and sustainability in context with the current geopolitical uncertainties.

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Sustainability delivers smarter decision-making and happy shareholders

Buddy Bayer, Chief Operating Officer, Colt Technology Services, discusses the findings of the company’s fifth, annual Digital Infrastructure Report, with sustainability planning, CIOs shaping sustainability strategies, the positives of AI, legacy technology, NaaS and end-to-end intelligent infrastructure just some of the topics covered. Buddy is optimistic that ‘smart sustainability’ delivers benefits for all an organisation’s stakeholders.

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Photonic processor promises 30x energy efficiency improvements

Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, discusses the company's first commercial product - a photonics-based Native Processing Unit (NPU) built on the its compute architecture LENA - Light Empowered Native Arithmetics. The Q.ANT NPU executes complex, non-linear mathematics natively using light instead of electrons, promising to deliver at least 30 times greater energy efficiency and significant computational speed improvements over traditional CMOS technology.

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Metal foam makes for cooler data centres

Dr. Julia Carpenter, CEO & Cofounder of Apheros, explains how the start-up specialises in thermal management and is developing innovative cooling solutions for data centres and the high-power computing industry. The company’s high-performance metal foams maximise heat dissipation, optimise fluid flow, and reduce energy consumption, addressing the most crucial cooling challenges faced by industry.

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Just last month, the UK Government announced it will establish ‘AI Growth Zones’ as part of its AI Action Plan, to help to facilitate the rise in demand for AI-specific data centres. It’s an exciting...