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Emma Irwin, Director of Sales Engineering at Dataiku, the company’s recently published annual trends report, “5 GenAI Trends for 2025: Beware the AI Agent Reckoning,” highlighting five transformative trends that will shape the enterprise AI landscape. The report focuses on the next frontier of generative AI (GenAI): the game-changing rise of AI agents and their potential to deliver a transformative impact on enterprises worldwide. Topics covered include AI investment and ROI, data privacy and governance, the LLM ‘mess’ and upskilling the workforce.

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Collaboration is critical to data centre industry’s ongoing success

Posted on 13th March 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Jim Hart, CEO of BCS, discusses how the industry needs to focus on its ability to innovate continuously, adopt new technologies, and implement strategies that balance performance, cost, and sustainability - adapting to meet these growing demands while mitigating the associated challenges. Jim covers key topics such as AI, sustainability, edge, modular and scalable design, advanced cooling technologies, regulation and skills.

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Kaya AI delivers a sustainable supply chain revolution

Posted on 3rd March 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Ojonimi Bako, CEO and co-founder of Kaya AI, explains how, by leveraging artificial intelligence, data analytics and automation, the company streamlines procurement processes, enabling faster, more efficient, and sustainable project delivery. Kaya AI’s platform is designed to augment human productivity – simplifying procurement tracking and automating routine workflows, empowering teams to accomplish more with fewer resources.

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What does an AI workload-ready UPS look like?

Posted on 28th February 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Louis McGarry, Sales and Marketing Director, Centiel discusses how AI is creating heavy demand for power protection - with projects that require multi megawatts of power for data centres and AI data processing facilities that rely on power protection equipment that can be scaled-up and rapidly deployed. Louis explains that, while efficiency and sustainability in UPS systems is now a given, customer choice now comes down to quality and also how big and how quickly can UPS systems be scaled and deployed. Centiel will be demonstrating an AI workload-ready UPS at the forthcoming DCW event in London.

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DCS talks to ToffeeX at TechExGlobal 2025

Posted on 13th February 2025 in Distributor M&A Partner People Moves Tech & Trends Vendor by Phil Alsop

In this video, DCS talks to ToffeeX at TechExGlobal 2025.

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Developing the most sustainable, scalable and resilient data centres

Posted on 13th February 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Gareth Williams, Director, UK, India, Middle East, and Africa Data Centres and Technology Leader, Arup, outlines a “good neighbour” approach to data centre development – one that integrates community needs, environmental stewardship, and technological innovation to create projects that benefit all. He covers nature and biodiversity, decarbonisation – what net zero really means, repurposing assets, ‘one water’ – SuDS, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, wetlands and ponds and (renewable and alternative) energy options.

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Global data centre demand surges

Posted on 13th February 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Jonathan Kinsey, EMEA Data Centre Lead at JLL, discusses the findings of JLL’s new 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, exploring the relationship between AI, sustainability and investment demands. Jonathan is confident that, despite certain challenges, including supply constraints and electricity limitations in some markets, the outlook for the data centre sector remains highly favourable. The industry is poised for continued growth, driven by AI adoption, increased data processing demands and ongoing technological advancements.

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Five principles for a sustainable approach to GenAI

Posted on 12th February 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell Technologies, and Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Director at BT, discuss the challenges and opportunities organisations face as they seek to leverage around GenAI as a key digital transformation tool - needing to find ways to minimise the environmental impacts of the technology whilst maximising innovation. They share a five-point plan to help organisations sustainably adopt and run GenAI.

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