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Collaboration is critical to data centre industry’s ongoing success

Jim Hart, CEO of BCS, discusses how the industry needs to focus on its ability to innovate continuously, adopt new technologies, and implement strategies that balance performance, cost, and sustainability - adapting to meet these growing demands while mitigating the associated challenges. Jim covers key topics such as AI, sustainability, edge, modular and scalable design, advanced cooling technologies, regulation and skills.

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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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News

Flare witnesses a 114% increase in MSSP adoption, underlining the prioritisation of scalable threat intelligence integration.
Snowflake partners with OpenAI in a $200M collaboration, integrating AI models for enhanced data insights.
Exploring the integration of micro data centres near substations to meet the rising AI demands with existing grid resources.
Infosecurity Europe 2026 will introduce a Cyber Startup Programme, bringing early-stage cybersecurity companies to the event from 2–4 June at ExCeL London.

Expert Opinions

By Ciaran Flanagan, Vice President & Global Head of Data Centre Solutions & Services at Siemens.
By Markus Nispel, Head of AI Engineering & EMEA CTO, Extreme Networks.
By Dmitry Panenkov, CEO and founder of emma, the cloud management platform.
Global Commissioning’s CEO Louis Charlton’s latest article comes during National Apprenticeship Week, as the importance of building up our next generation of talent’s skills for data centre facilities is...