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Legrand at DCW Frankfurt 2025 – Hear What They Had to Say

At Data Centre World Frankfurt 2025, we caught up with Senol Meral from Legrand to hear their thoughts on the evolving data centre landscape. Watch the full interview to find out what they had to say.

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Making light work of AI

Mark Rushworth, Founder and CEO of Finchetto, outlines the company’s mission to significantly reduce data centre energy use and accelerate cluster performance with the world’s first fully-optical passive network switch. Compared to today's state-of-the-art switches, Finchetto reduces power requirement by up to 26x while reducing latency by up 40x.

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Successful strategies for developing sustainable, data centres for the AI era

Mark Yeeles, Schneider Electric’s Vice President, Secure Power Division, UK and Ireland, discusses the challenges and opportunities for the data centre industry as AI and data fuel a new industrial revolution, explaining that this not only means finding ways to decouple AI data centre growth from energy consumption but further emphasises the need for greater efficiency and sustainability within data centre design and buildouts. Mark says that, to achieve a greener future powered by AI, the industry not only accelerate the build-out of digital infrastructure and renewable energy developments, but harness the power of the ecosystem to ensure it is done so as sustainably as possible.

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Reversible computing and near zero-energy silicon chips

Mike Frank, Senior Scientist and Rodolfo Rosini, CEO, both at Vaire Computing, explain how reversible computing, as an alternative to classic computing, performs calculations without destroying information in the process (i.e., generating heat), reducing energy consumption and the need for cooling. Both are excited by the potential of the technology to meet AI’s ever-increasing computing and energy demands.

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Portman Partners invests in new rapid-hire recruitment service

Mike Meyer, Managing Partner of Portman Partners, and Paul Cutliffe, Managing Director of Flint DC, explain why Portman Partners, the global data centre executive search business, is making a strategic investment in Flint DC, which offers a new no-nonsense rapid-hire recruitment service Contingent+, combining the standard contingent terms of business, with recruitment fees contingent on a successful outcome, with the bespoke search methodology typically reserved for head-hunting or specialized roles. Both Paul and Mike also offer some fascinating insights into the industry’s ongoing skills and recruitment challenge.

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BCS recruits a competitive edge - Part 3

Will Edwards, Consultant at BCS, describes his journey from professional rugby to data centre project management, as part of BCS’s Athlete Career Transition Programme, designed to address the data centre industry’s skills shortage by helping ex-professional sports people to find a new career in the digital infrastructure sector.

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YVAM chiller meets Europe’s growing data centre demand

Todd Grabowski, President of Data Centre Solutions at Johnson Controls, explains how the company has expanded the availability of its leading YORK range of YVAM air-cooled magnetic bearing chillers to Europe to meet the growing demand in the data centre industry. The YVAM is a crucial thermal management technology for hyperscale and colocation facilities – Todd talks through key features including the power efficiency, operating temperature range and zero water. He also shares some thoughts as to how the data centre industry will evolve into the future and how Johnson Controls, and its Global Data Centre Solutions organisation in particular, will develop solutions to meet these new demands.

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Vertiv strengthens its thermal management capabilities by acquiring PurgeRite, bolstering its position as a leader in liquid cooling systems.
As generative AI demands more computational power, data centres face modernisation challenges to balance resource efficiency and energy consumption.
SCC offers a comprehensive cloud migration and security suite, now available through AWS Marketplace, to simplify and secure cloud transitions.
Akamai teams up with Zuplo to enhance AccuWeather's API delivery, promoting speed, security, and monetisation.

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