Roundtable Recap: Probing AI Data Center Designs; Edge and Modular Focus; Liquid Cooling Poll; Creative Supply Chain Strategies

Our Data Center Executive Roundtable for the First Quarter of 2024 asked for our four industry leaders' considerations on topics including:

• Ideas about the most significant ways whereby the unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure for AI and the cloud, and attendant core concerns surrounding cooling, power and sustainability, are giving rise to new paradigms for data center design.
• Finding out whether the data center industry is approaching a similar inflection point for the expansion of edge and prefab modular facilities to meet hyperscale capacity and compute demands, as it did last year with the expansion of data center rack power densities in response to the wave of heightened expectations for generative AI and liquid cooling uptake.
• Asking whether data center developers’ short-term investment is keeping pace with the level of hype versus the actual deployment of a range of data center liquid cooling technologies. And if not, when the industry can expect to see these vectors comprehensively converge.
• Probing the junction between complex challenges in North American data center supply chains and delivery timelines in 2024, and the how the formation of creative industry alliances and acquisitions can facilitate solutions.

Here is the full question and answer session, organized by topic:

• How New Data Center Designs Will Meet Shifting Industry Paradigms
• Charting the Edge and Prefab Modular Inflection Point
• Gauging the Level of Data Center Liquid Cooling Expectations
• Where North American Data Center Supply Chain Challenges Meet Creative Industry Alliances

Here are links to the individual Q&A summaries for each of our distinguished panel members:

• Data Center Insights: Sean Farney of JLL
• Data Center Insights: Ian Golter, Kohler Co.
• Data Center Insights: Brandon Peterson, CoolIT Systems
• Data Center Insights: Stuart Lawrence, Stream Data Centers
• Data Center Insights: Eric Schwartz, CyrusOne

The conversation is moderated by Data Center Frontier Editor in Chief Matt Vincent.

Thanks to all of our executive participants for sharing their time and insights!

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