Clean your room!
From the CTO’s corner: Simon Gardner, Oper8 Global Group For anyone who has had teenage kids, you can probably relate to the messy bedroom. While it’s usually a source of frustration to most parents, for some kids it’s a matter of pride – to the extent it’s become a TikTok trend! Odd start – what’s […]
Data centre security: let’s get physical
From the CTO’s corner: Simon Gardner, Oper8 Global Group You’d have to be living under a rock if you didn’t know that cybersecurity threats have ramped up this year, with a seemingly endless number of attacks and a proliferation of tools, technologies and methods available to malicious actors around the globe. The good news is […]
Immerse yourself in new cooling techniques
From the CTO’s corner: Simon Gardner, Oper8 Global Group Excuse the pun, but technology developments to manage the thermal demands of data centres are hot right now. I recently wrote about direct-to-chip (D2C) liquid cooling, but the other big emerging field is immersion cooling. That’s where you mount your servers vertically and immerse them completely […]
Is there a future for net zero data centres?
From the CTO’s corner: Simon Gardner, Oper8 Global Group At the last United Nations General Assembly in New York, world leaders updated their commitments to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets as the world strives to reach net zero by 2050. Those commitments are translating into increased pressure on data centre operators to drive sustainability […]
Achieving a Smarter Edge
From the CTO’s corner: Simon Gardner, Oper8 Global Group Global spending on edge computing services is expected to be more than US$260bn in 2025, and projected to reach almost US$380bn by 2028 – a CAGR of 13.8% – according to IDC. That growth is being driven by a number of factors, which has seen organisations […]
Trying To Stay Cool
From the CTO’s corner: Simon Gardner, Oper8 Global Group We wrote recently that NVIDIA high-performance computing at 600kW per rack is coming; a five-fold increase in the maximum densities we are seeing today. One of the implications of this is that advanced liquid cooling infrastructure will be essential to deal with the heat being generated […]
NVIDIA’s 600kW racks are coming — and they’re about to change everything
Simon Naylor, SVP APAC, Oper8 Global Group At NVIDIA’s annual GTC conference earlier this year – you can watch the whole two hours here! – CEO Jensen Huang announced that its Rubin Ultra NVL576 will be coming in H2 2027: 576 GPUs in a single rack consuming 600kW of power. That’s right, 600kW per rack. […]
Sustainability is becoming a race against time
Simon Naylor, SVP APAC, Oper8 Global Group We’ve got just five years – by 2030 – to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure the well-being and prosperity of both people and the planet. In light of the SDGs, there’s a real sense of urgency with a recent UN announcement putting our data […]
Why Data Means So Much For Pole Position In Formula 1
In qualifying sessions at the most recent Formula 1 Grand Prix, there was less than one second difference between pole position and tenth on the starting grid, and just 0.209s between first and second. Being on pole gives that driver an advantage – in the history of Formula 1, more than 40% of race wins […]
Don’t be late to AI’s gold rush
Simon Naylor, SVP – Asia Pacific, Oper8 Global Group In a recent post, we wrote about how data centres are helping to win races – literally – but there is a much bigger race against time going on right now: something the World Economic Forum is calling the data centre “gold rush”. This gold rush […]