Operations and maintenance
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AI capacity runs into the labour ledger
Turner & Townsend says data centre construction demand is rising while labour shortages, MEP pressure, and contractor capacity tighten delivery risk.
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Norway’s build-out reaches the trades
EQVA has secured Norwegian data centre work covering piping, mechanical installation, electrical services, and commissioning support.
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Haydock gets the power-room factory
AVK is scaling modular electrical rooms for data centre delivery.
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Intesa puts core banking in Italian cloud
Intesa has moved core banking systems into Italian cloud regions.
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Mo i Rana tests the battery layer
VivoPower is studying battery storage at its Norway data centre.
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Dawn outage turns heat into compute risk
Cambridge’s Dawn supercomputer outage shows how extreme heat can turn cooling infrastructure into compute risk.
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NTT tries to factory-build hyperscale
NTT Facilities says its Hyper Ready Module approach could sharply reduce delivery times for large hyperscale data centres.
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UPS maintenance gets predictive
Schneider Electric has expanded EcoCare to three-phase UPS systems, bringing condition-based maintenance deeper into critical power rooms.
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Cooling chemistry enters the rack
Wacker has launched a silicon-based dielectric fluid as immersion cooling moves closer to mainstream AI data centre design.
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Arcus buys London colocation foothold
Arcus has agreed to acquire Volta Data Centres, a 6MW carrier-neutral facility in central London.