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What is Future-tech’s Data Centre Consultancy Service?

Mark Acton — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:40:30 +0000

Future-tech offers a fully customised consultancy service, providing data centre–specific expertise across a wide range of topics and disciplines, without being limited to any single area of specialisation. This flexible service is based upon world-leading data centre expertise developed over several decades of designing, building, maintaining and operating data centres. This expertise and experience is […]

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Data Centre Water Usage in the UK vs. the US – The Real Facts!

Mark Acton — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:37:31 +0000

In recent months, headlines have painted an alarming picture of data centres draining precious water resources, particularly in the UK and Europe. But the real story is far more nuanced than the headlines suggest… This blog aims to set the record straight. Following the recent article by the BBC ‘Concern UK’s AI ambitions could lead […]

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Top Mistakes When It Comes To Data Centre Maintenance Pt 2

Richard Stacey — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:56:15 +0000

Following the first set of common mistakes I highlighted in Part 1 when it comes to data centre maintenance, here are some additional top mistakes I have seen over the last decade when it comes to Data Centre Maintenance and Management, and how they can be addressed with industry best practices: Asset Sweating Most data […]

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Top Mistakes When It Comes To Data Centre Maintenance Pt 1

Richard Stacey — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:57:14 +0000

‘What are the top mistakes you see when it comes to Data Centre maintenance?’ is a question I have been asked a lot, is researched a lot, and is often talked about anecdotally. Having worked in the data centre industry for over 10 years, dealing with aspects of design, build, maintenance and operational management, my […]

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The Importance of Data Centre Maintenance

Richard Stacey — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:27:08 +0000

One of the biggest areas of contention when it comes to data centres, is ‘who looks after it?’ – is it Estates, the IT department, or somebody else entirely? In reality, this doesn’t matter; what does matter is that maintenance is done properly and that a Data Centre Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule is created […]

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Data Centre Availability and Reliability – An Explanation & Suggested Kpis

Mark Acton — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:32:57 +0000

Data Centre Maintenance, According to ChatGPT!

Richard Stacey — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:27:47 +0000

With all the current buzz about ChatGPT, the team at Future-tech thought it would be interesting to see what it made of data centre maintenance, an area of significant focus for us. We therefore asked the model 2 questions highlighted below. The answers that came back were interesting, in both the topics they highlighted and […]

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What Is Data Centre Maintenance and why is Planned Preventative Maintenance Essential?

Richard Stacey — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:10:41 +0000

In this series, we will discuss some of the aspects of data centre maintenance, why these are important and who should be doing them. In the first part of this series, we will cover what should be included in a good, well-managed Planned Preventative (PPM) Schedule. What Is a Data Centre? It’s probably better to […]

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Data Centre Maintenance and Remote Management in 2021 (Part 2)

Mark Acton — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:56:14 +0000

In this second of 2 articles, we look at data centre maintenance and management, specifically from a remote perspective. What are the benefits of remote? Why should it be considered? It is remarkable how reliable and resilient digital infrastructure, including data centres, has proved to be during the global pandemic despite significant growth in usage […]

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Data Centre Management and Remote Monitoring in 2021 (Part 1)

Mark Acton — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:31:53 +0000

In this first of 2 articles, we discuss data centre management, specifically remote monitoring, looking into the Edge model and remote dark sites. Data centres are designed, built and operated for one purpose alone, and that is to reliably and securely host the Compute, Storage and Network resources providing the digital services upon which we […]

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