FOREWORD

DATA CENTRE MAGAZINE TEAM

SENIOR EDITOR BEN CRASKE

DEPUTY EDITOR SAFFRON HUMPHREYS

LEAD DESIGNER ETHAN SALMON

MEDIA DIRECTOR MICHAEL BANYARD

PRODUCTION MANAGERS YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA FREYA REID

MARKETING LEAD IZZY HUTCHIN

MANAGING EDITORS LUCY BUCHHOLZ TOM CHAPMAN

PRODUCTION DIRECTORS DANIELA KIANICKOVÁ JANE ARNETA

MANAGING DIRECTOR LONDON & EVENTS JAMES CALLEN

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN

CEO GLEN WHITE

Welcome to August’ s second issue of Data Centre Magazine. Our front cover feature this month focuses on Vantage Data Center and Ramboll’ s collaboration at the Lighthouse Campus in Wisconsin, which could help save the endangered rusty patched bumblebee. In The Data Centre Interview, Gerhard Salge, CTO of Hitachi Energy, discusses how data centres can become better grid citizens. Elsewhere, our features include:

• Data centres as active energy partners rather than passive consumers

• Scalability strategies at the edge

• Backup power innovations

Last but by no means least, this issue’ s Top 10 spotlights the leading neocloud providers. As always, thank you for reading and enjoy!

BEN CRASKE

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