Operations and maintenance
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Batteries could loosen Britain’s data centre grid peaks
Research using electricity profiles from 96 UK data centres suggests onsite batteries could reduce maximum grid imports by 10–15%, shifting demand without reducing the energy required by computing and cooling.
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Backup power adds a 3MVA European option
Everllence has introduced a 3MVA standby generator for European data centres, combining 2.4MWe output with 50Hz operation, container integration, electrically driven cooling, and support for HVO.
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Liquid cooling orders double before standards settle
Georg Fischer says orders for data centre liquid-cooling systems doubled in the first half of 2026 as prefabricated polymer pipework, valves, controls, and instrumentation move into larger deployment programmes.
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Dutch outage pulls power and cooling into one failure
A utility power failure in Google Cloud’s Dutch region developed into a cooling loss and protective workload shutdowns, disrupting bare-metal, VMware, and managed storage services for more than 12 hours.
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Munich build clears the concrete milestone
Equinix and Mercury have completed the main structure and roof of MU4.3 in Aschheim, moving the live campus expansion into fit out, integration, and commissioning.
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NFrance cools Toulouse without a drop
NFrance has completed a live cooling retrofit that it says cut cooling power by about 20%, removed operational water use, and protected hosted services throughout installation.
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Datadog brings observability data closer to UK workloads
Datadog adds UK hosting for observability and security telemetry data.
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The AI build-out reaches the cable tray
BSRIA says data centres now dominate structured cabling growth.
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Rear-door cooling pushes past 120kW
Supermicro has expanded its rear-door heat-exchanger range to 120kW, offering a retrofit route for increasingly dense AI and HPC racks.
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Picasso adds a denser AI core
The University of Málaga has secured €3.21 million to add Nvidia B200 accelerators and six petabytes of storage to its Picasso supercomputer.