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Keeping a data centre cool in Saudi Arabia is one of the challenges XDS Datacentres’ chief strategy officer Ikaraam Ullah discussed in a Bloomberg interview. He also spoke about retrofitting existing facilities to address power and water use in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
Why it mattersThat is a useful reminder that computing infrastructure is shaped by its surroundings as much as by its chips. Retrofitting may help operators tackle resource constraints without starting from a blank site, though the interview description gives no project details or measured results. Cooling, it turns out, is not just a matter of turning up the fans.
Discuss: Should data-centre operators prioritise retrofitting existing sites to reduce power and water use, or build new facilities designed around those constraints from the start?
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