ALIX PRESSLEY, EDITOR

elcome to the 90th issue of Intelligent Data

Centres, where we dive into the latest news and insights from across the world. What stands out to me this month is the number of new facilities popping up, particularly in Europe. What is most reassuring is that these projects are being completed with sustainable practices prioritised as a key strategic component.

Our cover story comes from Bouygues Bâtiment International, as Henri Chauveau, Head of the Data Centre Business Line, explains the shift in hyperscale demands over the past 18 months, the challenge of building dense, in-city facilities and why designing for obsolescence risk is now as important as the build itself.

Elsewhere, we explore how interesting developments like Equinix and A2A partnering to turn server heat into district heating for Milan, as well as Elea building the Amazon region ' s first AI data centre in Brazil powered by renewable energy, are shaping the future of data centres and making the impossible, possible.

Turn the pages to read more of the innovative projects propelling the data centre industry into one of the most critical for modern-day digital development. And don’ t forget to keep up with the latest insights, news and customer stories on our website: https:// www. intelligentdatacentres. com /

He offers expert insight into the construction and social challenges BBI faces with building such facilities and how the company is navigating these on projects like the Goodman data centre in Sydney. This story can be found on page 14.

Talking Point on page 19 explores how growth in AI infrastructure is fuelling the data centre construction boom and global job creation. Turner & Townsend ' s research shows this is stretching contractor capacity, intensifying labour shortages and accelerating digital transformation investment across construction.

AI infrastructure is a pivotal focus this issue – seen on page 23 where Nick Maggs, Managing Director Hard Services at OCS, makes the case that AI ' s greatest data centre threat isn ' t computing power, it ' s the ageing cooling infrastructure quietly running underneath it.

Later in the magazine, Chris Carreiro, CTO at Park Place Technologies provides a roadmap for building a workforce fit for the data centres of the future as the AI generation fuels a new era of tech careers. Find this on page 35.

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