REBECCA MILES, EDITOR

elcome to the 83rd edition of Intelligent Data

Centres and the first of 2026. It’ s a pleasure to be editing this established magazine, where within its pages we learn more about the changes happening within the data centre industry and the latest innovations and partnerships.

On the front cover of this month’ s magazine, we feature David Hutchful, CEO at Yemaachi BioTech. Yemaachi BioTech is harnessing sovereign AI-ready infrastructure to process petabyte-scale genomic datasets locally and accelerate precision medicine research across Africa. Powered by the BlueNODE platform from BlueSPACE and anchored by the Nexsan Unity NV10000, the deployment delivers the highperformance storage and compute needed to drive advanced Machine Learning workloads under full local control. Turn to page 14 to read more.

continue to contribute to the wider sustainability agenda whilst experiencing times of high growth – and the central role that water treatment plays in achieving this.

We also have an Intelligent Technology section on page 28, a round-up from our regions on page 33 and from pages 39 to 44, a snapshot of content from our vertical IT publications.

I hope you enjoy this issue and if you would like to feature, please do email rebecca. miles @ intelligentglobalmedia. com

REBECCA MILES, Editor

Our expert column comes from Alix Pressley, Director of Strategic Content at Intelligent Global Media. She looks at the latest technology updates hot off the press in the Middle East and Africa. It’ s set to be another evolutionary 12 months for IT, with ambitious plans firmly at the top of the agenda. Turn to page 19 to read more.

The exponential growth of AI workloads is drastically increasing power densities and posing complex challenges for modern data centre facilities. Chris Osian, Product Manager at Starline, a brand of Legrand, details the effects of this AI revolution, outlining the major challenges in power distribution today and what future-ready strategies must deliver to meet rising density and uptime demands. He also examines how busway solutions, such as Starline Track Busway, provide advantages in scalability, installation, safety and white space optimisation compared to traditional RPP systems. Turn to page 23.

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From page 35, Chris Payne, Co-founder and Director of PureTec Separations, discusses how data centres can ensure they

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