Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has announced the expansion of its London North data centre, with six new data halls being built as part of the first phase of a major expansion project. The expansion will comprise 10 new data halls, in total, when the project is completed. A major power upgrade Read more…
Etix Blockchain opens two large scale Blockchain facilities in Iceland
Etix Blockchain, a new division of Etix Group, has opened two new Blockchain facilities in Iceland. The buildings are located in the capital area of Reykjavik (10 minutes away from the international airport of Keflavík), and in Blönduós (located in the north of the country). In both locations the first Read more…
Data centre delivers high efficiency for UK’s largest Housing Association
When substantial business growth required Sanctuary Group to design and build a new data centre, the organisation selected APC’s InfraStruXure architecture for a high density facility to host an increasing number of virtualised machines. Sanctuary also chose to target exhaust heat as a resource rather than a waste by-product and Read more…
Equinix to open 8th Paris data centre in 2019
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has announced that it will open the company’s first International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre dedicated to the evolving needs of the company’s largest cloud customers in Paris in Q1 2019. The Paris data centre – called PA8 – will see an Read more…
Keppel and the Salim Group to operate data centre in Indonesia
The Salim Group and the Keppel Group, through the Alpha Data Centre Fund (Alpha DC Fund), managed by Alpha Investment Partners Limited (Alpha), and Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd (Keppel Data Centres), have signed conditional agreements to jointly develop and operate a high-availability data centre in Bogor, about 35km Read more…
Powerstar invests in ‘Innovation Laboratory’
Powerstar, a manufacturer of smart energy solutions, has invested half a million pounds in a purpose-built ‘Innovation Laboratory’ situated at the company’s head office and manufacturing facility in Sheffield. This investment will assist Powerstar in delivering bespoke solutions to clients, by allowing Powerstar’s growing in-house research and development team to experiment Read more…
Conference explores challenges and opportunities in Irish data centre market
The data centre industry in Ireland is growing significantly and with a forecast additional €9 billion to be invested in the country by 2023, there are a host of opportunities on the horizon. This important market is the focus of Data Centres Ireland, which combines a high level multi-streamed conference Read more…
Battery storage: resilience trumps grid revenues?
When it comes to behind the meter battery storage, a share of grid services or arbitrage revenues is almost irrelevant for some industrial and commercial firms, according to Alex Mardapittas CEO of Powerstar, a storage and UPS manufacturer. Mardapittas says resilience underpins the storage business case and for certain companies Read more…
Socomec and Power Continuity deliver reliable uptime for automotive clients
Power Continuity designs builds and installs fully automatic critical power protection systems. When Power Continuity required a maximum efficiency Static Switch with a reliable track record for their major global automotive clients, they looked long and hard at the static transfer switch (STS) options available in 2018 from a number Read more…
Power protection meets strict specifications of water treatment sector
Power Control has just completed an extensive power protection installation for Hampton Loade Water Treatment Works in South Staffordshire. The project was scoped into Power Control by one of its long standing clients, Sentridge – a drives and controls business with an impressive background of projects within the water treatment industry. Read more…
Etix Everywhere to build new Frankfurt data centre
Etix Everywhere, a global data centre provider and operator, EVO, an energy supply company for electricity, natural gas and heat, and Data Centre Group (DCG), a data centre design, planning and certification office, teamed up to build a 15 MVA facility in Offenbach, part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Read more…
On the edge of a new era?
Ian Bitterlin makes some predictions on what the ‘edge’ will mean for jobs, energy consumption and where the ‘edge’ will be located Wherever you look you will find predictions about ‘edge’ data centres – from the serious to the downright silly. The concept of edge computing is simple: the data Read more…
Powerful intelligence: the role of smart PDUs
The increased sophistication of PDUs is in line with expectations for increasingly granular data. Panduit’s Sander Kaempfer provides an insight into the role of intelligent technologies in the data centre and the scope for smart PDUs Power demands at data centres continue to grow, with the number of global sites Read more…
White Paper discusses cost and capacity benefits of cooling compressors
Compressors are at the heart of all cooling systems. They are used in data centre applications to carry heat energy away from IT equipment and ensure it is cooled efficiently. Their function is consistent in all cases: to compress a refrigerant from a low-pressure, low-temperature vapour, to a high-temperature, high pressure, Read more…
80% of businesses believe a quarter of energy needs will be generated onsite by 2025
Most businesses will take control of their own energy use by generating a quarter of their electricity onsite by 2025, with 77% of businesses in the UK and Ireland predicting this change will take place in just seven years. This is according to a new study of over 1,000 businesses, by Read more…
Fears over cyber threat to power grids
The modernisation of utility infrastructures is enabling increased efficiencies and reliability through digitisation, connectivity, and IT-based approaches. Smart cyber assets are transforming both power and water grids, allowing operators to deploy and leverage a new generation of functionality and customer services. However, smart utilities are also highly vulnerable to cyberthreats, Read more…
Can you bank on your back-up power?
How do you know your back-up power will kick in when it is needed? A recent report suggests there is unrealistic optimism about resilience. Paul Brickman of Crestchic examines why critical sites should consider investment in loadbanks as part of their strategy to ensure uptime With recent research from Centrica Read more…
Ofgem rejects UK Power Reserve’s bid for change in balancing services
Ofgem has rejected a call from UK Power Reserve to change balancing services rules. The peaking plant firm, now owned by Sembcorp, wanted to stop larger generators in the Balancing Mechanism from getting paid multiple availability payments for different services with the same asset. For example, being paid to be Read more…
UPS delivers more power in a smaller footprint
Vertiv has announced the availability of the Liebert EXS, a compact uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system designed to deliver reliable, integrated power protection for small spaces, including small and medium businesses (SMBs) and edge deployments. The integrated tower design combines UPS, batteries, maintenance bypass, distribution and communications in a single, Read more…
Power outage plunges US airport into darkness
In the US, a major power outage plunged Reagan National Airport into darkness and affected critical air traffic control operations. Officials are investigating the cause of the power outage, which occurred Wednesday evening. A generator is said to have been ‘smoking’, according to local news reports. The incident is a Read more…
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