Hampshire based engineering company, the Aqua Group, has been selected as a strategic partner to PVD Modular in a deal which will see at least seven off-the-grid data centres being built across Norway (three) and Finland (four) over the coming years. Aqua will join the engineering team designing the full heat Read more…
NetActuate announces London expansion with new data centre
NetActuate has announced the launch of services from a new data centre location in London, to offer increased capacity for infrastructure and boost global network performance and reliability. For businesses seeking a reliable, low-latency London presence, NetActuate offers a suite of global network and infrastructure services, including its anycast platform, virtual Read more…
Data centre pricing in the UK remains higher than in other large EU markets
The latest report published by datacentrepricing.com highlights that UK average pricing remains more expensive than the other large markets of Germany, France and the Netherlands. The UK data centre cluster pricing varies by 40% according to UK geographical region. The report also reveals that the fast growth European Data Centre clusters include Read more…
Equinix expands its global footprint to South Korea
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has announced the expansion of its global footprint to South Korea with its new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Seoul. This carrier-neutral data center—called SL1—will provide interconnection and colocation services to businesses in support of their digital transformation initiatives and Read more…
Chayora completes first phase of hyperscale campus in China
Chayora, the Hong Kong-based data centre infrastructure company, has held a formal operational handover event following the completion of the first phase of its TJ1 Data Centre at its 300MW hyperscale campus in Beichen, northern Tianjin. The start of operations follows the successful completion of all primary infrastructure, building, support Read more…
Equinix to expand data centre services in Hamburg
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11 million (€9 million). Equinix will invest another $25 million (€22 million) to redevelop the Read more…
Survey finds 40% of IT managers do not consider power efficiency important in data centre design
A new report suggests that IT managers are not putting environmental concerns and energy efficiency as high on their agenda as they should, with 43% stating they have no environmental policy and over half (59%)saying they do not measure PUE. Furthermore, only 9% indicated energy efficiency as the top criterion Read more…
Uptime Institute warns that ‘painful lessons will be learned’ in 2019
The Uptime Institute has warned that disruptive and often high-profile outages will continue as operators grapple with the complexities of deploying distributed, hybrid systems across multiple data centres and services. A report by the Uptime Institute says that the IT industry is in the middle of a large and difficult Read more…
Spie awarded multi-million pound contract by NGD
Spie UK has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract with Next Generation Data (NGD), operators of the largest tier 3+ data centre in Europe, for the design and installation of three new data halls with associated power trains. The works form part of NGD’s recent multi-million-pound investment into the further development Read more…
Government urged to act on blackout warnings
As the UK transitions to a lower carbon economy, the GMB union is warning of the need to ensure a safe and secure energy supply. The energy union has called on the Government to heed ‘nightmarish’ blackout warnings from the Institute of Engineering and Shipbuilding in Scotland A new paper, Engineering Read more…
Cybersecurity fears over cloud adoption are still a high priority
Equinix has announced the findings of an independent survey of over 1,200 senior IT professionals which show that more than seven in 10 (71%) organisations are likely to move more of their business functions to the cloud in the coming years. 60% of EMEA IT leaders cite proximity to cloud service providers Read more…
How demand management supports security of supply
Site resilience and demand-side response are often seen in opposition. But the reverse is true – and can in fact be mutually advantageous, especially if your business could benefit from improving security of supply For many businesses, suffering an interruption to your power supply can be costly as well as Read more…
Countering the risks of battery storage
Battery storage has been a hot topic in the energy industry for a couple of years now. As the ‘halcyon days’ of high DFR revenues slip away, it’s important for businesses to counter the risks with a sensible and technologically smart approach. According to the recent 2018 Battery Storage report by The Energyst, Read more…
The future of data centres: out with ‘aggression’, in with ‘collaboration’?
Speaking at Data Centres Ireland, John Laban from the Open Compute Project pointed out that many data centre professionals are failing to keep up with key technology trends and commented that there is a significant gap in knowledge when it comes to OCP innovation. When questioning data centre professionals on Read more…
A powerful connection: delivering supply to KAO
KAO Data’s new £200m development required a dedicated and redundant 43.5MVA power supply. Managing costs and ensuring resilience was critical to the success of the start-up business One of the most important deliverables for a new data centre is the provision of its power. The connection to the grid can Read more…
Load sharing hybrid power systems: removing the barriers
Deep Sea Electronics (DSE) has developed a control solution that removes the barriers to hybrid load sharing installations. John Ruddock explains how mission critical sites can effectively capitalise on renewable technologies There is a growing market for independent hybrid power systems that maximise the use of readily available renewable sources, Read more…
OCP: Delivering increased efficiency
Robert Bunger, director of Data Centre Industry Alliances, Schneider Electric, provides an insight into how data centre operators can adopt Open Compute Project principles The Open Compute Project (OCP) was born out of the necessity for internet giants to quickly assemble massive hyperscale data centres to support their business Read more…
Energy resilience: tackling the risk of major outages
Choosing batteries that are not ideal for a given application can undermine resilience, putting businesses at risk. Jon Bailey, managing director of Hoppecke UK, offers some advice on ensuring optimal protection for mission critical sites We are living in times of increased business risk and one of the key issues Read more…
Tackling the problem of ‘regenerative power’
Due to the increased use of temporary power solutions, container ports are experiencing issues with ‘regenerative power’, so how can the risks be mitigated? The container shipping industry is an ever-growing, fast-paced environment, and power infrastructure cannot always grow in line with power requirements. For this reason, many container ports Read more…
Ensuring resilience for critical airport systems
Two new cooling systems will deliver massive carbon savings for one of the UK’s busiest airports, while reducing the risk of outages of critical IT systems Manchester Airport is one of the busiest in the UK, initially opening in 1938 as Ringway Airport. It is the global gateway for the north Read more…
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