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Sustainability Reporting Service for Data Centres

Mark Acton — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:06:28 +0000

As sustainability expectations grow across industries, data centres face increasing pressure to align with regulatory frameworks and environmental best practices. Future-tech’s Sustainability Reporting Service is designed to help clients navigate these challenges, establishing a robust, measurable sustainability strategy tailored specifically for data centre environments. What is The Sustainability Reporting Service? Sustainability reporting is a way […]

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Shifting the Blame: The Real Culprit Behind Data Centre Energy Consumption

Mark Acton — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:10:00 +0000

Data centres are often blamed for their significant energy consumption, but this perspective overlooks a critical point: they do not create the energy demand or consume the power, the true driver of energy consumption lies in the IT equipment they host, which is measured by Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). Misconceptions About PUE and Energy Efficiency […]

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The Problem with PUE

Mark Acton — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000

In the world of data centres, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has long been touted as a metric for measuring efficiency. However, it’s time to challenge this conventional wisdom and unravel the real complexities surrounding PUE. Let’s take a fresh look at the data centre landscape and explore the true factors affecting energy consumption. The Limitations […]

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How Does Warm Weather Impact Your Data Centre?

Richard Stacey — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:06:33 +0000

In ever-unpredictable climates and warm weather spells, we are becoming even more conscious that data centres can be significantly affected by hot weather conditions. This is a growing concern as global temperatures continue to rise. Here are some of the ways hot weather can impact data centres: Data Centre Cooling outages IT Equipment hosted within […]

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Award-winning data centre design and build for the University of St Andrews

Richard Stacey — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 23:00:00 +0000

Award-winning data centre delivers flexible, green data centre solution for Trinity College Dublin

Richard Stacey — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 23:00:00 +0000

Queens University Belfast – data centre optimisation

Richard Stacey — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:39:48 +0000

Bracknell Forest – Low cost green solution delivers fast Return on Investment

James Wilman — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:39:48 +0000

Data Centre Energy Efficiency

James Wilman — Thu, 07 May 2015 23:00:00 +0000

Whether you are considering the environment, your public image or your bottom line, it makes sense for your data centre to be as energy efficient as possible. There have been many estimates of the amount of electricity consumed by data centres, some suggesting that in the UK it could be as high as 4% of […]

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Trinity College Dublin wins the Tech Excellence Awards

Richard Stacey — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:22:19 +0000

NOW IN ITS 14th year, this Awards programme recognises excellence not only in implementing tech solutions, but also in the business of marketing and implementing technology for business. Over 20,000 students and staff depend on College IT services every day. With PCs, laptops, and smart phones connected to servers 24 hours a day and 7 […]

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