DataCentral covers data centres across the UK and Europe, with a focus on the systems, pressures, and decisions that shape the sector.

That means reporting on power, cooling, construction, operations, resilience, policy, investment, and the wider infrastructure behind digital growth. It also means asking practical questions of where capacity is being added, where projects are slowing, and how leaders are tackling technical challenges or policy limitations.

The data centre market is often described through abstractions: cloud growth, AI demand, digital transformation. Yet, the sector is built and run in the physical world. It depends on land, energy, equipment, design, labour, security, regulation, and capital. Those pressures do not sit neatly in one discipline, so neither does our coverage. We span the physical and digital aspects of data centre operations, and bring together the commercial and technical sides of the industry.

Our readers include operators, engineers, contractors, specialist suppliers, advisers, investors, developers, and policymakers. Some come to the sector through infrastructure, others through finance or strategy, yet they are often dealing with the same constraints from different directions.

We cover new projects, retrofits, regulation, market shifts, operational challenges, and the technology changes that have real infrastructure consequences. In a fast moving and critical sector such as this, our aim is to offer a better understanding of what is changing across the sector and why it matters.

DataCentral is edited by Radu Bordei, a UK-based editor with a background in industrial and infrastructure journalism and experience across both business and industrial arms of the 2b Publishing portfolio. His focus is on the realities behind expansion and performance: power strategy, resilience, sustainability pressure, delivery risk, and the wider economics of digital capacity.