New DataCentre Magazine podcast features Barnard
C&D's Gerrit Barnard is featured in an episode of the Global DataCentre Podcast Series from DataCentre Magazine. The latest installment of the series offers valuable insight into the challenges and opportunities shaping today’s critical infrastructure landscape.
Episode focuses on reliability and sustainability in data centres and telecom networks
In the episode, "Is Your Data Centre Infrastructure Ready for AI?,” Gerrit Barnard, Director of Sales EMEA at C&D Technologies, discusses the growing energy demands on data centres and telecom networks driven by AI, cloud expansion and edge computing.
Barnard explores evolving expectations around reliability, particularly as infrastructure becomes more distributed and power requirements become more intensive. Sustainability is another key theme, with organisations placing greater emphasis on energy efficiency and long-term operational performance.
Demand for flexible, scalable power solutions
Barnard also outlines how C&D's solution-oriented approach is helping customers move beyond one-size-fits-all systems. Instead, organisations are seeking flexible, tailored power solutions that can scale alongside their needs and support future growth.
The discussion addresses the importance of balancing immediate operational priorities with long-term planning, especially in the context of power for high-density computing and rapidly advancing technologies.