This week’s podcast guest is Dame Dawn Childs, CEO of Pure Data Centres Group, who discusses the significance of the government’s decision to designate data centres as critical national infrastructure, the potential for the green energy transition to be supported, not hindered, by the power demands of AI and why Britain needs more engineers.  

Pure Data Centres Group designs, builds and operates white-label data centres, with clients including cloud storage giant Amazon Web Services (AWS). Childs joined the company in 2021 and has been its chief executive since May 2023.

Before running one of Britain’s top data centre companies, Childs had a distinguished career which included engineering and executive roles at the National Grid, Gatwick Airport and the Royal Airforce.

Listen to the full episode here, along with all previous episodes of the UKTN Podcast.

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Throughout the series, the UKTN Podcast speaks to some of the key movers and shakers from UK tech. We’ll learn growth strategies from both seasoned and up-and-coming founders, hear market sentiments from investors, and question policymakers on the decisions impacting the country’s innovation economy.

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