Operations and maintenance
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Proton outage exposes cooling failover weakness
A Frankfurt cooling failure knocked multiple Proton services temporarily offline.
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T-Systems cuts Cerdanyola PUE to 1.35
T-Systems says cooling and operating changes have reduced PUE at its Cerdanyola data centre to 1.35 while reported water-use efficiency has also fallen sharply.
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OVHcloud raises prices as memory costs surge
OVHcloud is raising prices on newer dedicated-server generations as RAM and storage inflation flows into infrastructure costs, with average increases of 28% on Gen 2024 hardware and 51% on Gen 2026 systems.
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Castrol fluids gain NVIDIA cooling validation
Castrol’s PG25 and PG25T direct-to-chip cooling fluids have been validated against NVIDIA requirements covering thermal performance, materials, and supply-chain resilience.
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Echelon and Trinovium develop liquid cooling systems
Echelon Data Centres and Trinovium will develop direct-to-chip cooling fluids, monitoring systems, and modular thermal technology as high-density AI infrastructure puts coolant stability and reliability under greater scrutiny.
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AHEAD brings rack integration closer to European data halls
AHEAD has opened a 53,000 sq ft facility in Reading to assemble, configure, validate, and prepare complete AI, HPC, and edge rack systems before they reach European data centres.
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UPS investment forecast to reach $30.7bn
Global data-centre UPS investment could reach $30.74bn by 2031 as AI density, hyperscale development, and grid constraints raise the value of electrical resilience.
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InfraPartners puts AI control into prefabricated facilities
InfraPartners and Phaidra are integrating AI-based facility controls into prefabricated high-density data-centre systems, targeting cooling efficiency and operational complexity at scale.
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Schneider maps 800 VDC arc-flash risk
Schneider Electric has modelled arc-flash behaviour in two 800 VDC data centre architectures as AI racks push electrical distribution towards higher voltages.
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AtlasEdge starts Hamburg expansion phase
AtlasEdge has begun a 3.2MW expansion of HAM002 near Hamburg, the second of four phases planned for a campus designed to reach 20MW.