News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation 2024 event.
Watch OnlineMat Brown, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer | Sustainability: Data Center & Hybrid Multicloud at Nutanix, who worked closely with Atlantic Ventures, as they produced the ‘Improving Sustainability in Data Centers 2024’ report, which reveals how next-generation data centre architectures, including hybrid cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), can significantly reduce energy consumption, lower carbon emissions, and drive cost savings across the EMEA region.
Watch OnlineMat Brown, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer | Sustainability: Data Center & Hybrid Multicloud at Nutanix, who worked closely with Atlantic Ventures, as they produced the ‘Improving Sustainability in Data Centers 2024’ report, which reveals how next-generation data centre architectures, including hybrid cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), can significantly reduce energy consumption, lower carbon emissions, and drive cost savings across the EMEA region.
Watch OnlineYuval Bachar, co-founder and CEO of ECL, the data centre-as-a-service pioneer which unveiled a world first off-grid, sustainable, modular, built-to-suit data centre earlier this year, explains the thinking behind the company’s decision to build what it says will be the first fully sustainable 1GW AI Factory – ECL TerraSite on a 600+ acre site in the New Orleans to Houston corridor.
Watch OnlineJohn Kreyling is moving from his role as Business Development Director to become the new MD of Centiel in the UK. He shares his excitement in taking on the new role, his objectives for the future and outlines the ways in which UPS technology can continue to make a major contribution to the data centre industry, as it seeks to address the challenges and opportunities around power availability and management, alongside a wider sustainability focus.
Watch OnlineBen Pritchard, CEO of AVK, a fast-growing supplier of innovative and sustainable power solutions for data centres and energy-intensive organisations both here and in Europe, discusses how the data centre industry can drive forward the sustainable power agenda by focusing on the development of microgrids, alongside existing efforts on renewables and decarbonisation more generally. The digital infrastructure industry has the opportunity to become a genuine sustainability enabler in the world of digital power solutions.
Watch OnlineJohn Booth, MD of Carbon3IT, explains the thinking behind the new National Data Centre Academy, as part of his company’s commitment to decarbonising ICT estates across the globe, by providing training in energy efficiency best practices in a real server room environment, demonstrating and showcasing products to accelerate the net zero agenda, and updating information on concepts and innovation to reduce energy consumption and to meet existing and future regulations.
Watch OnlineKevin Brown, Senior Vice President, EcoStruxure Solutions, Secure Power Division, and Alison Matte, Sustainability Lead EcoStruxure IT, both at Schneider Electric, explain the introduction of new model based, automated sustainability reporting features within the company’s EcoStruxure IT DCIM software - discussing the importance of accurate performance metrics as data centres respond to the business imperatives of energy efficiency and performance optimisation as well as the march of environmental legislation - with the EU Energy Directive already making an impact.
Watch OnlineJim Hart, BCS CEO, provides some brilliant insights into the sustainability, skills and supply chain challenges facing the data centre industry, and that’s before the AI explosion promises to redefine the rules completely! As ever, Jim brings some much needed wisdom to a discussion of the legislation, technology innovation, and choice of data centre location which will likely frame the industry’s future success.
Watch OnlineDoug Loewe, CEO, Kao Data, outlines the company’s strengths which attracted him to join the colo at the start of this year, and shares his vision for the future – with new locations in mainland Europe part of an ACE (AI, Cloud and Enterprise) plan. Doug also offers some great insights as to how the data centre industry in general is responding to the challenges and opportunities of providing a mission-critical foundation for today’s sustainable, digital world.
Watch OnlineJohn Kreyling, Centiel’s newly appointed Business Development Director, shares his enthusiasm for all things UPS as he takes on an important new role at the company. John believes that Centiel has a key role to play in helping data centre owners and operators address their many power, energy efficiency and sustainability challenges, as it continues to develop both its dynamic approach to technology innovation and its presence in the market.
Watch OnlineChris Maclean, CEO of Open Energy Market, provides some great insights as to how data centres can leverage energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives not only to meet environmental goals but also to gain a competitive edge in the industry.
Watch OnlineMichael Crabb, SVP Commercial, Last Energy, talks through the energy start-up’s micro-scale nuclear power plant - a central component of the company's 20 MW modular power plant, which can be developed within 24 months and provide clean energy direct to data centres. Last Energy's innovation is designed to provide the fastest, most affordable, least resource-intensive path to 24x7 clean baseload power, along with siting flexibility and also addresses the problem of grid price volatility.
Watch OnlineAlexander Troshin, EMEA Product and Marketing Manager, Enterprise and HPC Server at AMD, outlines the energy efficiency challenges facing the data centre industry, with particular reference to power-efficient processing. He covers the key architectural innovations, packaging advances and algorithmic improvements to compute that will deliver more energy-efficient solutions for data centres and AI workloads.
Watch OnlineAndrew Fettes-Brown, Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) Global Board Director, Head of Data Centres at RLB UK and Europe, outlines the results of the company’s recent research, the results of which suggest that the way in which future data centres are designed and built must be substantially rethought to accommodate supply chain constraints and sustainability measures.
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