Strategy Stream - Day 1

Hugh Robinson, Event Director, DataCentres Ireland

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This session will address:

• The current state of play
• Putting all options on the table
• Viable routes for a secure future

This session will address:

• The current status of campuses
• Viability to grow and mature campus data centres
• What does it mean for future power supply and discussions

This session will address:

• Past and Future Trends in Ireland’s Data Centre Industry
• Historically led by hyperscalers versus the transition to wholesale colocation facilities
• The impact of current power issues and environmental concerns
• West Coast viability
• AI is driving demand that is insensitive to latency – what are the options in Ireland?

This session will address:

• Identifying the next generation workforce
• Why diversification matters
• Strategies and responses – it doesn’t have to be a headache

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IT, particularly data centres, is a major contributor to carbon emissions – the direct and indirect generation of CO2 – and the production of millions of tons of electronic waste (e-waste) every year. To support sustainability goals, data centre operators must employ a new approach to hardware lifecycle planning and management – from design to decommissioning to redeployment and reuse. Full racks can be reused and redeployed externally. Millions of pounds of equipment can be kept out of the waste stream. That’s circular data centre thinking – and it’s how IT organisations can optimise the value of their assets and the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their entire data centre operations.

What will be discussed: 

• How to leverage certified data erasure, redeployment, remarketing, reengineering and harvesting of components to divert waste from landfills, avoid greenhouse gas emissions, recover valuable metals and save energy.
• Why stringent data sanitization is fundamental to a circular data centre strategy.
• How real companies used circular strategy to remarket over 95% of retired drives and racks from their decommissioning projects and received millions of dollars back on their bottom line.

This session will address:

• One year on – status update
• Upcoming milestones/targets
• Existing versus new datacentres – the impact

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