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AI driving an infrastructure revolution It’ s no secret: AI has created the most significant technical disruption the data centre industry has experienced.
Traditional enterprise applications typically require 5-10 kilowatts per server rack, power levels that conventional air cooling systems can manage effectively. AI training and inference workloads demand power densities that have forced fundamental reconsideration of cooling systems, electrical infrastructure and facility design.
“ That changed everything from how we design our data centres to the power that supports our data centres to the locations we look at,” Brittany explains.“ You’ ve seen our densities grow from 10-15 kilowatts to 60 kilowatts to 100 kilowatts, and projected to go higher as we scale.”
The industry-wide nature of this transformation has forced unprecedented collaboration between stakeholders that traditionally operated independently. Equipment manufacturers must coordinate with construction contractors,
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