Operations and maintenance
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Vertiv’s growth meets the delivery wall
Vertiv reported 24% quarterly sales growth but said supply congestion and phased project execution shifted revenue, exposing the uneven conversion of AI demand into completed infrastructure.
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MEP automation opens a London front
Swedish engineering technology company Endra has opened a London office to expand its automated mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design platform across Europe.
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Europe’s build pipeline lands on Equans’ books
Equans ended June with a €27.6 billion backlog after record first-half order intake, as data centres added to demand for complex technical-services contracts.
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Server resilience starts below the operating system
Infineon’s SEMPER NOR Flash has joined ASPEED’s AST2700 approved-vendor list, validating the component for firmware storage in next-generation server management controllers.
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Veolia steps inside a 350MW private power system
Veolia will operate a grid-independent microgrid for an Ohio AI campus, covering 350MW of generation, 430MWh of batteries, commissioning, and long-term maintenance.
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Live NHS retrofit replaces ageing power and cooling
Two NHS data centres have replaced UPS and air-handling equipment while remaining operational, with projected annual cooling savings of £32,305 and 58 tonnes of carbon.
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Scottish fibre lines scale for denser AI halls
Leviton has expanded high-fibre-count cable and cassette manufacturing at Glenrothes, adding more than 100 UK-produced configurations for AI, cloud, hyperscale, and colocation projects.
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Denser racks meet a thinner skills pool
Uptime Institute’s 2026 survey finds more facilities reaching 30kW rack densities while recruitment difficulties, outage costs, power constraints, and incomplete sustainability measurement persist.
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The commissioning cliff comes after handover
RS says UK and Ireland data centres risk operational exposure through weak MRO planning, supplier coverage, and critical spares strategy.
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Cloud infrastructure meets conflict risk
Reported damage to Amazon-linked facilities in Bahrain puts physical security back into the cloud resilience debate.