Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast

Peter Byrne, CEO of South Dublin Chamber, joins the pod to talk about the opportunities data centres provide for local business in Ireland and how they are contributing to important community projects.

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.

As the dataverse continues to grow exponentially to reach unprecedented quantities, the processing speeds in data centres need to increase to match them. We talk to Carlos Mora from Corning Optical Communications about the future connectivity and cabling.

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.

Justin Moran, Director of External Affairs at Wind Energy Ireland, joins the pod to talk about the symbiotic relationship between data centres and wind energy – and how issues with the planning process and national grid are preventing the development of the renewables that could end Ireland's reliance on fossil fuels.

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres. 

What steps are data centres taking to reduce their carbon footprint and increase their sustainability? Jeremy Probert and Craig McKechnie take a quick gallop over the ground covered so far...
#LiquidCooling #Biogas #Green Hydrogen #FactsNotFiction #GridCitizenship #Sustainability

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres. 

Echelon Data Centres COO Graeme McWilliams joins the pod to talk about power supply issues, and how data centres – and their tenants – can become part of the solution by providing back-up energy to the grid, by helping bring more renewables on stream, and by facilitating Ireland's reduction in carbon emissions and move towards net zero.

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres. 

Do people really know what sustainability is? John MacNamara, Head of Regulatory Affairs at Bord na Móna, talks to Jeremy Probert about what sustainability means for business, why data centres should be an integral part of Ireland's sustainable energy needs, and about leading Bord na Móna’s corporate sustainability team as it transitions from being a fossil fuel company to becoming a climate solutions provider.

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.

'Data Centres use too much energy, are very inefficient, don't create jobs, and are the cause of large amounts of carbon emissions'. These are just a few of the accusations levelled at the data centre sector in recent years. But is there any truth to them? Bitpower.ie CEO David McAuley and Echelon Data Centres CMO Damien Gaynor join Jeremy and Craig to separate fact from fiction and bust a few data centre myths. 

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.

Dr Rory Monaghan, Director of Energy Systems Engineering at NUI Galway, joins Jeremy Probert and Craig McKechnie to discuss Ireland’s incredible Green Hydrogen potential and how it might help power data centres. How is hydrogen currently being created and used, what needs to be done to make it clean, green and sustainable – and is there really evidence that exonerates hydrogen for the Hindenburg Disaster 84 years ago?

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.

Jeremy Probert and Craig McKechnie talk to Declan Murray, CEO of Biocore Environmental, about the role that biogas anaerobic digestion plants can play in converting farm waste into renewable energy to help power data centres. Ireland has lots of farm waste yet very few biogas producing facilities. Why is that – and what will it take for biogas to become part of the symbiotic cycle of sustainability powering Ireland's critical infrastructure?

Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.

Jeremy Probert and Craig McKechnie talk to Aiden Callaly, of immersion cooling systems manufacturer Submer, about the hyper-efficient and eco-friendly new technologies that are meeting the perennial challenge of keeping data centre servers cool.
Created and produced by 4TC, Power & Responsibility – The Data Centre Podcast – is brought to you by Irish data centre provider Echelon Data Centres.