AI is now a driver of data centre expansion everywhere in the world—across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In Europe, the supplied projection puts data centre capacity growth at a compound rate of 25% to 2030, ahead of the effect produced by the shift to public cloud infrastructure over the past decade. AI workloads […]
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called for data centre regulation that would require operators to carry more of the cost of their growth, as state officials face pressure over power demand, water use, and local opposition tied to AI development. In a letter to state regulators on Tuesday, Abbott set out proposals for the Legislature to […]
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Have carried the burden of land acquisition, planning consent, construction, supply chain management, and full fit-out, many data centre operators may think that the day their new facility comes online is the end of the process. But how about the day-to-day management of the internals of a data centre – the human technicians who will […]
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Enterprise networks do not operate inside a single security perimeter. Workloads now run in on-premise data centres, public clouds, branch offices, and remote endpoints simultaneously. Employees connect from home networks, cloud infrastructure scales dynamically, and applications interact increasingly across multiple platforms. These changes have created a major challenge for traditional network security. Legacy firewall architectures […]
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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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