At DCN Milan, Georgia Butler speaks with Microsoft's Tiziano Durante on Italy's booming data center market, Microsoft’s €4.3bn investment, AI cloud growth, digital sovereignty, and the role of hybrid cloud.
Following months of deliberations, DCD has announced the winners of the annual DCD Awards, celebrating the industry’s best data center projects and most talented people.
The winners received their trophies on Thursday evening, at a gala ceremony held at the Lancaster Hotel in London, hosted by comedian Deborah Frances-White.
The finalists were selected by an independent panel of data center experts from hundreds of entries, arriving from across the world.
Microsoft’s ‘Stark and Simple’ design collapses the entire energy supply chain, into a small fuel cell at the top of each rack. The result is a very efficient generator that produces electricity and by-products that can be reused; like clean water, high grade heat, and pure CO2.
This award was sponsored by CBRE