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Why Now is the Best Time to Join the Data Centre Industry
Our Head of Talent, Oli, and Early Careers Specialist, Tianna, explain how to get into the data centre industry, what makes a great hire, and why data centre power is one of the most stable career paths in tech right now.
Press releases
AVK Secures Majority Investment from Partners Group
The first external investment in our 36-year history sees Partners Group become majority shareholder alongside our management, backing AVK's growth as a European leader in prime, standby, modular, and dispatchable power solutions. Building upon our long-standing heritage in mission-critical systems, the investment from Partners Group will support the roll-out of an energy-as-a-service (EaaS) model for data centre operators.
AVK thinking
How to Address the Power Component Crunch in Europe
Europe stands out as the global data centre market with the longest lead times for large power components. This can delay commissioning and is one of the factors slowing AI infrastructure competitiveness here. What can power solution providers and their data centre customers do to improve things?
Podcast
AVK Service – Design, Deliver, Maintain: The Full Lifecycle
AVK Service - the backbone of data centre power. Our Service department is the team that maintains the data centre once the project is successfully delivered. Why is it so important? Let's find out. Jack Burrows speaks to long standing members of our Service team at our Lenham hub.
Podcast
Turning Conversations into Community
Strolling through St Stephen's Green in Dublin, our VP of Marketing, Giuseppe Caltabiano, speaks with Andy Davis; podcast host, builder of a community, and recruitment expert within the data centre industry.
Case studies
Europe’s First Microgrid: Pure DC in Dublin, Ireland
Europe's first microgrid in the data centre space has launched at Pure DC's site in Dublin. Operating off-grid and capable of remaining so, the facility on its completion will have an installed capacity of 110MW - 30MW generated from each permanent energy centre, and 20MW from a battery energy storage system (BESS).
Press releases
AVK and Pure DC Deploy Europe’s First Data Centre Microgrid
Designed to support phased data centre delivery without burdening Ireland’s national grid, the 110MW microgrid solution will ease energy constraints and help accelerate cloud and AI deployments. The first-of-its-kind in Europe, this scalable energy solution complements long‑term grid connection and renewable integration while accelerating data centre development, and providing an entirely off-grid solution in the meantime.
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