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WIND POWER to the campus , making the most of wind power – which is in abundance across the region – and challenging the company to explore storage options to ensure renewable energy supply is constant .
“ The facility is being designed to be AI ready . This means managing sustainable power at scale , supporting rapid and scalable deployments , and resonating with operational needs ,” explains VITRUS ’ Managing Director for Germany Michael Dada . “ Construction will include liquid cooling and immersive cooling capabilities being built into the fabric of the building and flooring strong enough to carry the new prepopulated AI / machine learning ( ML ) racks that are considerably heavier than those being used today . All of this must be achieved whilst consciously aligning with values that benefit the data centre provider , the customer and wider society responsibilities .
“ Wind power is only one of many renewable energy sources that we use to power our data centres .”
Challenges apparent across wind sector This sentiment is mirrored by Cerianne Cummings , Offshore Wind Market Director at Kent . Having worked specifically in the offshore space for more than a decade , Cerianne has had a front-row seat watching the sector
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