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. News

Latest news round-up

14 . Latest intelligence

Whitepapers from Equinix and Snowplow

21 . Industry intelligence powered by the DCA

Data centre predictions

Taking data centres from power hungry to energy efficient

Data centre combined heat and compute facilities – the future normal ?

25 . Infographic

Uptime Institute report finds downtime costs and consequences worsening

26 . Project focus

Latest updates from US , Ireland , Ghana and India

29 . Editor ’ s question

How are data centre providers offering a solution to the widening skills gap ?

40 . Expert opinion

Feature

Managed Hosting Provider , VDC , drives business , cost savings and storage consolidation

Combatting grid strain with decentralised energy solutions

Issue 41

Feature

Sustainable power adoption in data centres starts with Demand Response

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. Intelligent technologies

STORY

End user insight

Vertiv enables top

UK university to continue educating the next generation

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. Uncovering the layers

From the grey space to the white space : How Starline ’ s High Power Busbar , or XCP , range goes further

66 . Deep dive

We ‘ deep dive ’ with Stuart Crump , Director of Sales , Iceotope , who tells us about life inside and outside the office .

68 . The Edge

Assessing the sustainability impact of Lithium-ion batteries in data centre UPS www . intelligentdatacentres . com

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