EDITOR’ S NOTE
JOANNA ENGLAND, EDITOR
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of Oxigen. ello and welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent Data Centres.
This month’ s cover story, which can be found on page 49, features Benjamin Rovira, CEO
Rovira highlights the company’ s collaboration with Vertiv to deliver its largest and most advanced data centre in Sant Cugat del Vallès. Designed to meet evolving demands such as AI and high-performance computing, the facility spans 6,000m ² and supports up to 800 racks with flexible power options of up to 20 kW per rack.
Certified to Uptime Institute’ s Tier III standard, the data centre guarantees 99.982 % uptime through high redundancy and fault tolerance. Vertiv’ s technology, including power, cooling and Critical Insight monitoring software, ensures energy efficiency and real-time operational visibility.
Rovira said:“ We have been working with the Vertiv team for more than 20 years, during which they have always demonstrated exceptional professionalism and delivered stateof-the-art technology.”
This month’ s Deep Dive features Russell Willis, Head of Data & Delivery Intelligence, BCS.
When asked about the biggest changes seen in the last year, he says:“ The biggest change I have seen in the last year, by far, is the arrival of AI. This has been accelerating rapidly, mostly in the form of GenAI and LLMs, as organisations race to jump on the AI train.
“ Whilst I support and applaud digital transformations, which AI accelerates, there are some significant fallibilities that should not be ignored in the fervent race to board this train.”
You can read the full article by turning to p68.
Don’ t forget you can read daily news updates on our website. I’ d like to wish you a good month ahead and please enjoy the read!
Joanna England Editor
The facility operates on 100 % renewable energy and serves sectors including pharmaceuticals, technology and education, with future expansions planned to exceed 15MW of power capacity, reinforcing Oxigen’ s position as a leader in highperformance, sustainable data infrastructure in Spain.
In this month’ s Editor’ s Question on pages 30 – 33, we again ask industry experts how they see the evolution of sustainability practices in data centres.
Anna Kristín Pálsdóttir, Chief Development Officer, atNorth; Helen Munro, Head of Environment & Sustainability, Pulsant; and Rebecca Gilstrap, Senior Director of Strategy, Legrand Data, Power and Control, respond.
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