EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
DEAN BOYLE , CEO , EKKOSENSE
he data centre of the future will definitely have denser footprints . From big sprawling
T data centres with a few kilowatts and massive spaces to seeing many data centres where they ’ re 30 kilowatt , or even higher density footprints . So the spaces are growing , but it is absolutely filled with very high dense workloads . And I think mainly it ’ s around the tools to manage those so traditional BMS , heavy platforms for managing those and lots of heavy amounts of workload and resources going into them to manage them . There are new techniques , new software processes , AI , Machine Learning , cloud-based technologies , which allow you to run those systems and those platforms and data centres much more efficiently with a much lighter touch footprint .
CHRIS COWARD , HEAD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT , BCS CONSULTING
here are always going to be these huge
T hyperscale monsters in the middle of nowhere . They ’ re always going to be there . However , I think we need to start merging data with living . We need data to live . Mixed-use developments always used to be residential and retail and I think , as we go forward , we need to start integrating data centres into the retail and mixed-use developments . So it potentially might be a block of flats from the data centre on the ground floor and mixed-use schemes going forward .
That should be able to drive the developers to deliver these things a lot more quickly , and speed and latency then , so the residential side of things getting their data quicker and are less impacted . It ’ s ultimately the next utility , isn ’ t it ? Data is the fourth utility and people are seeing that more prominently . �
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