Tate Cantrell, Chief Technology Officer at Verne Global, provides some brilliant insights into the data centre industry’s sustainability progress to date and the technology and strategic innovations which will make a difference into the future – warning that the sheer scale of the impending AI explosion could just cause a disruptive re-think of many stakeholders’ Net Zero plans.
Watch OnlineGordon Johnson, Senior CFD Manager at Subzero Engineering, discusses the ways in which the industry is moving towards its sustainability objectives, with liquid cooling predicted to have an increasingly important role to play as part of a likely future hybrid cooling strategy.
Watch OnlineAaron Oddy, Sales Manager at Centiel, discusses the company’s extensive UPS portfolio, from the recently introduced StratusPower solution which sits alongside the highly successful CumulusPower product range, to the Essential Power, Premium Tower, CumulusPowerx1 and LiFePower solutions. Aaron also explains Centiel’s trusted advisor role in helping customers to make the right decision when it comes to purchasing, operating and maintaining UPS technology.
Watch OnlineMark Callaway, Account Management Director at Noveus Energy, offers some great insights into the business energy market, with a series of thoughts and suggestions as to how data centre owners and operators can take a much more proactive role when it comes to procuring their power supply – and save considerable sums of money along the way.
Watch OnlineShareef Alshinnawi as VP of Strategic Accounts at Iceotope, explains the benefits of the company’s Precision Liquid Cooling solution - recently demonstrated with partner Etisalat at GITEX – with a particular focus on the telecoms sector, where reducing costs and sustainability are key drivers. Iceotope’s technology is also creating significant interest in the hyperscaler/cloud market, and is well-placed to meet the specific demands of the impending AI explosion.
Watch OnlineNeil Potter, Business Development Manager for Electrical Systems and Solutions, Eaton, discusses the problems data centre owners and operators have when it comes to optimising the design, implementation, operation and retirement of their electrical infrastructure; and goes on to explain how the company’s recently launched xIntegra solution addresses these challenges by providing an holistic, integrated systems engineering approach to electrical systems design, hardware, software, services and the value chain lifecycle.
Watch OnlineMax Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, shares his usual fascinating and thought-provoking insights, with the focus in this interview on the many ways in which data centres need to work towards sustainability objectives on the path to Net Zero. While progress is being made, Max believes that, all too often, the climate continues to play second fiddle to commercial concerns.
Watch OnlineDavid Bond, Director of Centiel SA, Chairman of Centiel UK Ltd., Director of Centiel Asia Pacific, discusses the company’s significant achievements to date as an innovative manufacturer and supplier of UPS systems. He highlights Centiel’s market-leading approach, which has seen it first to introduce transformerless technology, modular UPSs and, most recently, a sustainable solution with a 30-year design life.
Watch OnlineMax Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.
Watch OnlineIn the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.
Watch OnlineJames Rix, Project Director, Global Lead for Data Center & Mission Critical CoP, Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd, provides a detailed, nuanced and expert analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing the data centre industry when it comes to the supply chain, skills and, crucially, sustainability. He argues that it is time for the industry to abandon its ‘softly, softly’ environmental evolution in favour of a strategic thinking and technology revolution.
Watch OnlineDean Boyle, CEO and Co-Founder of Ekkosense, discusses the importance of AI and VR driven thermal optimisation for live data centre environments – helping organisations to address their sustainability objectives as part of an overall corporate ESG strategy.
Watch OnlineMike Meyer, Managing Director, Portman Partners (Executive Search), provides some fascinating and expert insights as to why the data centre and wider digital infrastructure sectors are facing an imminent skills shortage, suggesting that innovative thinking and actions are required to address the situation before it becomes a significant bottleneck to ongoing digital transformation in both the business and consumer worlds.
Watch OnlineRichard Clifford, Director of Solutions at Keysource, discusses ways in which the data centre industry can address its Net Zero obligations with a range of technology and strategy innovations. In particular, he believes that next generation edge, with data centres being constructed and integrated into local communities, offers some significant sustainability benefits, so long as all the stakeholders understand the opportunity.
Watch OnlineMark Yeeles, Vice President of Schneider Electric’s Secure Power division in the UK and Ireland, shares his enthusiasm for his new role as he seeks to bring many years’ experience (including most recently within the company’s Industrial Automation division) to bear on the data centre industry. He believes that the sector has an important, positive role to play in both enabling and implementing digital solutions.
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