As mentioned before on these pages, an internationally recognised green data-storage and processing industry is an achievable goal for temperate and grassy Scotland.

Creating a consensus on how to make that a reality is the task for Data Centre Scotland 2013, which will hold a seminar in Edinburgh's Apex Hotel on Wednesday (1.30pm-7pm).

RMD Power & Cooling, ScotlandIS and APC by Schneider Electric will share their expertise in creating data centres that are compliant, cost-effective and energy-efficient.

Gavin Maxwell, operations manager of RMD Power & Cooling, says: "Powering the data centre has become an environmental and corporate responsibility issue. In recent months, Microsoft has committed to go carbon-neutral, Facebook will now only use renewable energy and Google has pledged to move away from coal-powered centres."

Tickets cost £20 plus VAT for ScotlandIS members and £30 plus VAT for non members. Contact Lyndsay.Henderson@rmduk.com.

A vicarious pat on the back for Scottish e-commerce specialist Indez that its highest-profile client Gocompare has a £450 million valuation, albeit one effectively set by a story on Sky News. The Glasgow company undercut two London agencies for the "good five-figure contract" to design the functionality of the TV advert-framed site, in late 2011. "No subcontracting, built in Glasgow from girders," says Indez boss Peter Mowforth. "The only bit we didn't do was the logo, which existed already."

Indez claims that Gocompare was one of the first responsive websites (meaning that the content adjusts itself to make best use of whatever device) for a major brand anywhere in the world. "In 2011, there were several small responsive websites but no big brand had done it."