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Where should your AI live? Why Sovereign data centres matter
|On a recent trip across three U.S. cities, I witnessed Waymo’s autonomous vehicles in action—driverless cars effortlessly navigating the busy streets of San...
Where should your AI live? Why Sovereign data centres matter
|On a recent trip across three U.S. cities, I witnessed Waymo’s autonomous vehicles in action—driverless cars effortlessly navigating the busy streets of San Franciso, LA and Austin Texas to safely get people to where they need to go. AI is not so...
AI’s sustainability opportunity for data centres
|AI will have a profound impact on every person, in every company, in every industry. This big AI bang will lead to a data explosion like we’ve never seen before. At the very heart of it are data centres, which will power the AI revolution. I’v...
The Big AI Bang
|Data centres, get ready for the new wave of AI hyperscalers. Artificial intelligence (AI) has gone mainstream. And its impact has been felt globally. Like many other popular technologies in the past, such as social media and mobile apps, AI too...
AI: The New Frontier for Data Centre Optimisation
|Data centres are growing in both size and complexity, with more data being generated and stored than ever before. To support this booming demand and run more efficiently, modern data centres are moving away from old school mechanical operations to...
Cyber security is part of a bigger risk management challenge
|Sailors don’t let the fear of getting lost at sea stop them from sailing. Instead, they proactively reduce their risks by taking the right precautions – using GSP trackers, avoiding rough seas, and keeping their boats in tip-top shape. It’s ...
Big data: Do you have sufficient runway for take-off?
|Sufficient capacity requires new data centre thinking. There’s a saying in aviation that you should always commence your take-off at the very start of the runway, and land at the very start of the runway, to maximise the runway you have availabl...
Reference Architectures: Choice and scale in data centre operations
|One of the fundamental foundations of successful colocation operations is the reference architecture that defines the implementation. When defining a reference architecture, either for the first time or when upgrading as part of an expansion of op...
A Guide to Cloud Computing and Data Centres
|The terms cloud and data centre are often used interchangeably but without much clarity. Indeed, it is true that cloud computing and data centres are related, but it is important to recognise and distinguish how they fit into the puzzle. That’s why...
When protecting data, who trusts who?
|Organisations and governments are under intense pressure to create and maintain trust around data. In a world where data is multiplying at the rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day (1 followed by 18 zeros), or 2.5 exabytes if you prefer, co...
Macquarie Data Centres’ Full Portfolio Certified Strategic by Australian Government
|Latest certification by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) confirms that Macquarie Data Centres’ facilities offer capability to support government information up to Top Secret classification with full redundancy at the Certified Strategic leve...