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Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

UK data centre and energy executive; Power & Infrastructure Partner at Tritax, previously Director of Strategic Power there and a decade at National Grid.

Sep 22, 2026

7:31
How do some of the UK data centres and the UK connected project differ from some of these US data centres? Are there different concerns and different mitigating factors involved if you look at geography to geography?
7:48
So that's right.
7:49
So I spent about a decade planning the network for these kind of industrial uses.
7:55
So what data centers, they have quite an interesting way of operation.
8:01
So effectively what a data center is doing is it's taking electricity and converting that into its data.
8:06
And so it is effectively a bit of a heater.
8:08
It creates heat from electricity.

17 MINS LATER

24:51
So some thoughts on that as well.

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