Figures collated at DatacenterDynamics London 2007 suggest that datacentre owner/operators are set to spend around $2.9 billion in 2008 on improving facilities.
Feedback was gathered from datacentre managers who handle equipment across 950,000 square metres of space and 150,000 racks of hardware.
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Key issues raised at the conference included power consumption (37 per cent), the cooling requirements of high-density configurations (21 per cent) and potential environmental impacts of power consumption (19 per cent).
George Rockett, co-founder of the global DatacenterDynamics Conference, said: "This year's findings show that the UK industry is focusing more and more on the critical power and consumption issues that have emerged as its key challenge.
"Rather than slowing growth, it appears to be stimulating further efficiency activity.
"The London event has enabled the industry to widen the debate towards the capabilities of monitoring, controlling and commanding the datacentre.
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