Operations and maintenance
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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.
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Liquid cooling earns an Nvidia seal
LG’s 600kW coolant distribution unit has passed Nvidia’s AI Factory assessment for cooling performance, reliability, monitoring, failover, and direct-to-chip integration.
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Immersion cooling leaves the data hall
Asperitas has developed an 18.4kW compact immersion system for edge AI installations where dust, vibration, restricted space, and difficult maintenance limit conventional cooling.
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Ireland rewrites the rules for data centre faults
Proposed Irish grid rules would require large demand sites to remain stable through faults and restore at least 90% of pre-fault load within 500 milliseconds.
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Volta looks beyond one London block
Volta Data Centres has appointed Jason Liggins as chief executive after its separation from Verne and acquisition by Arcus.
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AI hardware turns logistics into a project risk
Dimerco says servers, networking, cooling systems, and electrical equipment are creating a more demanding logistics chain between Asian manufacturers and global data centre construction sites.
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Britain’s cyber rules collide with a skills shortage
A workforce report warns that expanded UK cyber regulation could draw scarce specialists into compliance work as data centres prepare for statutory resilience duties.
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Amsterdam finds another 700kW inside existing halls
NovoServe is adding 150 racks across NorthC and maincubes facilities near Amsterdam, creating 700kW of additional bare-metal capacity without a new building.