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The Great Data Centre Divide: Hybrid Facilities vs AI Factories

One of the hottest discussion points at the recent Datacloud event in Cannes was that AI is not creating a single new data centre model, but two distinct ones. The first is the hybrid facility, where conventional enterprise infrastructure must sit alongside HPC and AI workloads. The second is the build-to-suit AI factory,designed for one […]

What came first? The logo or the fins?

I’m often asked what came first – Kao Data’s logo, or Kao Data’s green fins and which one inspired the other, so maybe it’s time to put that tale to rest in a blog about corporate colouring-in – which is what most of my technical colleagues believe I spend most of my time doing. That […]

As one chapter closes, another one opens…

It’s hard to believe I’m looking forward to my retirement in just two weeks from today. Like most big changes in life, retirement is not so much about the end of something, but rather the start of something new. It also provides a wonderful opportunity for retrospection. So, if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to […]

Empowering excellence in data centre design

Over the years I’ve worked in several different roles as both a design consultant and as a data centre design engineer (SME) and, in doing so, gained a good insight into the difficulties and opportunities facing data centre design. My first blog seeks to ask the question ‘how can we, as the data centre industry, […]

Anonymity or Visibility? A growing dilemma for today’s data centres

Data centres have historically hidden in plain sight, not wanting to draw attention to themselves to assure privacy and security for their customers. Their non-descript ‘warehouses’ and ‘hangers’ have typically been built in remote locations, or discretely tucked away on large trading estates formerly occupied by heavy industry to maintain a low profile and to […]

Commissioning – the first step in ensuring a sustainable data centre footprint

When we talk about data centre sustainability, much of the conversation is focused on operational elements – power utilisation, water consumption, green power sources, etc. While each of these are critical to an operational data centre strategy, one area missing from most sustainability conversations is the commissioning and construction of the data centre itself. According […]

Why ‘Incident Reporting’ is crucial to the data centre industry

As I suspect was the case for many people, I had a particularly rare and peaceful Monday evening a couple of weeks ago! For about 6 hours, all the phones in my busy household just sat there dormant, not a ping or notification to be heard of. Even an outage as large as the one […]

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Funding conditions:  If your application is successful, your project must be delivered by 31 December 2026. You will have to return any grant funds if the project is not delivered or the organisation receiving the funding stops operating.

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