Drew Gravitt is Senior Director of Distributed Generation & Microgrid Sales at Mission Critical Group (MCG) explains how the demand for data centres is surging due to AI and digital services and how this is placing increasing strain on existing power infrastructure. With many data centre developers facing long wait times for grid connections, Drew goes on to discuss the ways in which distributed generation and microgrids can help address the ‘time-to-power’ problem.
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Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge, the company’s GPU HBM cooling solution and introduces the idea of Thermal Fabric, a real-time thermal control platform that transforms cooling from a reactive cost centre into a system level intelligence layer without the instability tax.
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Thiri Shwesin Aung, founder and CEO of Nyxium, discusses how she and co-founder, Paul Seurin, have built an agentic AI platform that helps energy and infrastructure developers decide where projects are most likely to get approved and built, before months of time and millions in development costs are committed – set against a background where permitting and siting, not capital or technology, are increasingly determining what actually gets built as AI-driven data centre demand continues to...
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Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre operators need ‘controlled flexibility’ now more than ever, as tightened regulatory environments, skills gaps, grid constraints, and enormous computational intensity, driven by AI, create the perfect storm. Matt believes Global Reference Designs (GRDs) could be the key to deliver future-proof data centres that are both resilient and able to flex in line with demand.
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