EDITOR’ S LETTER
ALIX PRESSLEY, EDITOR
ello and welcome to another instalment of
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Intelligent Data Centres magazine, bringing you a roundup of events taking place across the industry this past month. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the key theme tying the pages together is AI, as the industry races to meet AI ' s growing demands for power, cooling and capacity.
The cover story shines a spotlight on the advantages of colocation, as we explore how Helmholtz Munich moved its HPC cluster, including 360 GPUs, to NTT Global Data Centers ' Munich 2 colocation facility. On page 14, you can read about the centre’ s need for a modern, future-ready solution. of compute capacity with offshore electricity generation and desalination for coastal communities.
Elsewhere in the magazine, you’ ll find country-specific news from places like India and Japan, with more regular updates available on our website: https:// www. intelligentdatacentres. com /
If you’ d like to contribute to future issues – with news stories, thought leadership articles and case studies – please don’ t hesitate to reach out to me: alix. pressley @ intelligentglobalmedia. com
I hope you enjoy the read!
Dr Alf Wachsmann, Head of Scientific IT, Helmholtz Munich, expands on the economic and sustainability benefits and offers his thoughts on the widely reported environmental concerns around data centres. He also gives advice to research institutions hesitant to build and run their own HPC clusters.
In Talking Point, on page 19, we explore the findings of Geberit’ s new report, examining the often-overlooked role of fuel infrastructure in data centre resilience, highlighting how pipework systems can influence the reliability of critical backup power.
Who knew there were so many similarities between motorsport and data centres? On page 23, Michael Fuller, Executive Chairman of Conflux Technology and former F1 engineer, discusses how motorsport’ s approach to thermal engineering is helping data centres improve cooling performance while lowering energy use and operating costs.
Another interesting read can be found on page 35, as Optimal Transit takes AI infrastructure offshore. The company is expanding the concept of the floating AI data centre with a new configuration of its Kraaken platform, combining 60 MW
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