The pace of change and growth in the development of data centres is significant, but how much scope is there to improve their sustainability credentials?

Operational efficiency and power usage can deliver big wins. But what about material choices? How do good intentions make it to reality? Is there an argument that design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) could be adopted more widely?

Putting the sustainability arguments to the test are Angela Vico Correas, director at studioNWA, Roy Andrade, technical director at Sweet Projects, Timo Hendy, technical director at Stantec, and Stephen Meleady, MEP director and sector lead for data centres at Stantec. Hosted by Graham Munday at Stantec.

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With the UK’s grid capacity stretched and an ever-growing need for data centres, what choices do we have to power them?

What impact will grid connectivity reforms have? How can we scale alternative forms of power generation? And could data centres even help to address power loads and support decarbonisation?

Sharing their views are Amy Turner, power connections lead at SEGRO, Jon Clark, associate at construction consultancy RLB, Peter Sibley, divisional director for nuclear at Stantec, and Jesal Chandi, senior utilities consultant at Stantec. Hosted by Graham Munday at Stantec.

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techUK described the data centres market as “the backbone of the UK economy”. But as data centres move beyond traditional locations into semi-rural or urban locations, public perception becomes even more important.

How can we quantify their value? How are data centre operators engaging with their host communities? And how are bigger sites enabling a more creative approach to design?

While there’s an obvious opportunity to recycle the vast amounts of heat that data centres produce, this hasn’t yet taken off in the UK. What’s missing? How do we see this progressing?

Here to answer all these questions and more are Emma Fryer, director public policy Europe at CyrusOne, James Donagh, development economics director at Stantec, and Stephen Meleady, MEP director and data centres sector lead at Stantec. Hosted by Graham Munday at Stantec.

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