NTT GDC
“ How do you power high density? How do you support it from an infrastructure perspective?”
Brittany Miller, SVP of Global Infrastructure Development, NTT GDC
“ We are piloting multiple tools to help us ensure quality and schedule and cost delivery. We are using AI on the job site to track the progress of projects and understand where we might have issues. We’ re piloting different AI scheduling to help us, particularly in some regions that are not used to this type of scale and don’ t have that type of experience,” Brittany explains.
Modularisation and prefabrication initiatives benefit from AI capabilities, especially in markets experiencing skilled labour shortages.
“ We’ re also looking at things like how do we modularise or prefab more things, using AI, particularly in markets where there are labour shortages. All of the development and the broader construction industry is working through how to leverage AI. We’ re trying to pilot and work through in different regions what works for us. That’ s what we’ ve been focused on the last year – building that culture of innovation and seeing what tools are out there.”
Strategic partnerships enable innovation and delivery The complexity of modern data centre development has elevated strategic supplier partnerships from transactional relationships to collaborative planning arrangements. The collaborative model emerged from necessity during 2020, when supply chain disruptions forced closer integration between operators and suppliers.
“ I think the whole industry figured out very quickly that partnerships are where this industry needs to go, and it accelerated that for us,” Brittany reflects.
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