In this episode, Ed Ansett, chairman of i₃ Solutions Group, talks to JSA Europe’s João Marques Lima on the transformation experienced by the European data centre market over the recent past. He discusses the buoyant market on the continent across not only Tier 1 markets but also 2.

i₃ Solutions Group, a consulting engineering firm specialising in data centres and mission critical environments, has announced the appointment of Luke Neville as Managing Director of the company’s UK operations.

Expert Insight: Ed Ansett, Chairman and Founder, i₃ Solutions Group.

By Ed Ansett, Chairman and Founder of i₃ Solutions Group.

Untold riches await whoever can provide long term energy storage without a high GHG tariff, says Ed Ansett, founder and chairman of i₃ Solutions Group, as he examines the complexities of the emerging energy storage technology scene.

Kerr Johnstone, Director, i₃ Solutions Group, discusses the increasing global demand for power, the strain that this places on power grids, and the opportunity this creates for the data centre industry to embrace the idea of demand response.

By Kerr Johnstone CEng MIET Director at i₃
Solutions Group

A piece written by Ed Ansett, Founder, i₃ Solutions Group, on how data centres can expect to engage with utilities in 2022 and onwards.

By Kerr Johnstone CEng MIET Director at i₃ Solutions Group

Wherever generative AI is deployed, it will change the IT ecosystem within the data centre. From processing to memory, networking to storage, and systems architecture to systems management, no layer of the IT stack will remain unaffected.

With the importance of data centres and supporting digital infrastructure growing ever-increasingly important — and demands on them growing at a similar rate. Data Centre Magazine compiles a list of the top 10, and we make the list at number 9!

Two of Africa’s biggest economies suffer regular power grid blackouts. South Africa continues to grapple with a formidable energy challenge caused by a strained and unreliable power grid prone to rolling outages.

With green hydrogen widely touted as the most desirable option for achieving climate change goals, the debate is heating up in the data centre sector where proponents of hydrogen believe it could well be an ideal primary power source for putting the sector on a path to net zero.

With green credentials that include the UK’s lowest carbon energy intensity, increasing access to RERs, low-cost land and political backing, are the pieces in place for Scotland to fulfil its data centre sector potential?

Whether it is microgrids, distributed energy resources (DERs), co-gen, grid-interactive, islanded or integrated (decoupled or coupled) – there is growing consensus that data centres will require onsite or locally generated power delivered through microgrids.

To say microgrids will become a feature of future large data centre design, would be to overlook the idea that technically most data centres of scale can be configured to operate as local microgrids.

Here, Ed Ansett, Founder of i3 Solutions, discusses everything you need to know about microgrids. This conversation covers how data centres will require onsite, or locally generated power delivered through microgrids.