Whilst ‘manifest’ bagged the Word of the Year for 2024, the industry could be forgiven for holding out hope that ‘data centre’ might make it for 2025. Following Rachel Reeves’ first speech as Chancellor that held up data centre development as an example of political commitment to economic growth, there has been wave after wave of investment stories, and most-recently an analysis of the potential £44bn that the sector could yield.
Organisations across the globe have shifted to specialist data centres facilities to look after their computing power. But by externalising the work, there is a risk of promoting a mirage that the environmental impact of digital technologies is immaterial. We must be clear; these technologies require valuable physical and energy resources. Collaboration and transparency is needed to manage their effective deployment.
Mike Hoy, CTO, Pulsant looks ahead to the next 12 months, identifying some of the challenges organisations are likely to face in delivering AI projects, and highlighting the importance of a resilient, connected infrastructure in meeting these. As AI proofs of concept evolve over the next 12–18 months, they will lay the groundwork for advances in technology.
The Foundations of the Future report recently commissioned by techUK, and developed by Henham Strategy, raises many points for consideration. It is an important attempt at quantifying the UK’s data centre assets. As a sector, the UK data centre industry is worth £4.7 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) annually, supporting 43,500 jobs and contributing £640 million in tax revenue to the exchequer.
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Economically speaking, scale-ups deliver far greater value than their size suggests. Whilst they make up just 1% of SME firms, the ‘sub-sector’ accounts for 8% of SME employment and 22% of SME turnover. Nearly 1 million people are employed in scale-up companies and these businesses have a combined turnover of almost £500 billion. Scotland has just over 2,100 scale-ups, with a pipeline of another 1,000. The current turnover of these organisations totals just over £41bn.
Northern Exposure: the confidence connecting Scotland and the Nordics to drive data centre evolution
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Scotland has a strong historical record in seeking out and supporting data centre investment. The Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action plan is already four years old. However, time has not dampened enthusiasm. The renewed interest in data centre investment that has followed encouraging comments from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has spread across the UK.
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In an era where modern commerce is inseparable from technology, digital transformation has become crucial for businesses to survive and thrive in all markets. Scotland has led the way in understanding the impact of this shift. In August 2023, the Independent Expert Group (IEG) on Unlocking the Value of Data delivered its report to the Digital Directorate, covering private sector use of public sector personal data.
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The 2023 National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) report into the UK legal sector warns that a failure to: “maintain appropriate cyber security measures… can have exceptionally negative consequences for a legal practice and its clients". Current figures cite that 65% of UK law firms have been victims of cyber incidents . Elsewhere, another report revealed that 72% - almost three-quarters - of UK-headquartered law firms have at least one employee password on the dark web.
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Since the 2011 Scottish Digital Strategy, Scotland's political and economic commitment to the technology industry has been consistent and substantial. The 2020 Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review and the subsequent TechScaler startup programme are great examples of this dedication at work today. Edinburgh's vital role in these plans has been equally long-standing.
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As part of Pulsant’s commitment to make a positive difference to our environment, we recently pushed ourselves forwards in value chain engagement and brought together a cohort of SME suppliers for a series of in-person decarbonisation workshops. In association with sustainability specialists SLR Consulting, our investment in these sessions supported our suppliers in understanding the landscape of decarbonisation and establishing their own action plans.
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Rob & Simon discuss the journey to PlatformEDGE and the benefits it delivers for UK regional businesses.
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PlatformEDGE combines regional data centres, distrubuted compute and low latency connectivity to deliver improved performance, growth at scale and transformation for regional businesses across the UK. Our integrated platform reaches 95% of UK businesses through our strategically located data centres on the edge network of all major UK cities. Get secure, fast, and controlled access to data, where and when you need it.
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There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to digital transformation. Connect to our reliable, secure and scalable national network of data centres and cloud platforms to help you transform at your own pace.
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We look after your IT infrastructure so you can look after your business. Eliminate the capital costs of maintaining your own facility and leave the connectivity, security and performance to us.
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Connect to your potential through our network of edge data centres, delivering high speed, low latency coverage to 95% of the UK population.
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Achieve your digital ambitions with our secure, scalable, and resilient cloud and colocation solutions.
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We provide a secure, reliable and cost-effective way to ensure your infrastructure remains resilient, scalable and highly available.
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Our Pulsant Enterprise Cloud (PEC) helps your business connect to its digital potential by providing the benefits of a hyperscale public cloud through a shared infrastructure.
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Pulsant is the UK’s premier digital edge infrastructure company providing next-generation cloud, colocation and connectivity services. With a network of 12 strategically located edge data centres, Pulsant brings the advances of edge computing within reach of 95 per cent of the UK population.
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- Edge Data Centres: Our network of owned and operated colocation facilities are within low latency reach of the UK's major cities.
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- Flexible Contracting: Our finance model allows costs to move between Pulsant services. Help to reduce spiralling costs and preparing our clients for the transformation towards edge computing.
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