Europe’s data centre sector has entered what the European Data Centre Association describes as a phase of expansion and change. The State of European Data Centres 2026 [email wall] report is based on a combination of analysis of its existing data and a survey covering operators responsible for 59% of installed colocation IT power. The […]
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The global market for data centre design services is on course for sustained growth as operators expand capacity and adapt facilities to new technical demands. According to a report from The Business Research Company, the sector should reach a value of $38.36 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 11.8%. According to the figures, […]
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Insurance company Willis has introduced an eight-point digital infrastructure framework that classifies data centres as a standalone systemic insurance class. The firm says the change reflects a change in the risk profile of data centres. It’s been influenced by the role DC assets now play in cloud and AI workloads. Announcing the framework on 28 […]
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One of the challenges facing cloud and digital infrastructure is the widening gap between committed data centre capacity and infrastructure that actually reaches construction or completion. Enterprises that depend on cloud services, colocation providers or use hybrid infrastructure will see the issue’s implications for cost, resilience, deployment timelines, and strategic planning. That’s according to a […]
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Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]
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Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]
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The challenge of running simulation and high-performance workloads efficiently is a constant issue, requiring input from stakeholders including infrastructure teams, cybersecurity professionals, and, of course, ever-watchful finance officers. Running these types of high-compute tasks often involves thousands of concurrent processes and are costly to run on traditional infrastructure. IBM’s latest update to its Cloud Code […]
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The UK and European governments are in the process of tightening data regulations, plus, geopolitical tensions from Russia and the US mean enterprises are rethinking where and how their data and AI systems operate. Atos’s new sovereign and agentic AI framework aims to address the demand for sovereign data facilities directly. It has announced three […]
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As the global demand for data centres continues to surge – driven not only by AI but also by the decentralisation of digital infrastructure – operators are facing mounting pressure to balance performance, sustainability, and compliance. In Europe and Asia, the trend toward smaller, locally distributed facilities is accelerating, spurred by concerns over data sovereignty […]
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On 24–25 September 2025, Amsterdam’s RAI will host TechEx Europe, a two-day gathering of more than 8,000 professionals and 250+ speakers in five co-located events: IoT Tech Expo, Cyber Security & Cloud Expo, AI & Big Data Expo, Digital Transformation Week, and Data Centre Expo. For those operating in the data centre and cloud ecosystem, […]
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