Digital infrastructures place high demands on power supply, cooling and system availability. Vertiv develops solutions specifically for these areas – such as data centres and industrial applications. In this interview, Sascha Horn, Regional Strategic Account Manager at Vertiv, provides insight into current trends and developments in the data centre market.

The Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, an initiative founded within the eco Association by operators of digital infrastructure ecosystems, welcomes the data centre strategy announced today for the German federal state of Hesse and calls for a similar approach at the federal level to strengthen...

After the leaders of the CDU/CSU and SPD postponed the reduction in electricity tax originally agreed in the coalition agreement, the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, founded under the umbrella of the eco Association, appealed to the German Federal Government:

The eco Alliance welcomes the EU Commission’s intention to allow Member States to introduce an industrial electricity price. The initiative, founded by the eco Association, is now calling on the German federal government to act swiftly and include data centres in the electricity price compensation scheme, as announced in the coalition agreement.