Here's an audio recording of Session 9 from the inaugural Data Center Frontier Trends Summit, held Sept 4-6, 2024, in Reston, Virginia.
Session Description from 2024 DCF Trends Summit Program:
Research Study: Examining the Construction Supply Chain for Data Centers
This session is a presentation of the BluePrint Supply Chain research study on the "Construction Supply Chain for Data Centers." With demand for data center capacity not slowing down, multimillion-dollar data center construction deals are popping up weekly. But keeping up with lightning-speed tech in a construction slowdown is a nightmare. Ongoing construction supply chain challenges arising from longer lead times, lack of freight capacity, inflation, labor shortages, constrained power availability, site readiness issues, and increasing regulatory pressures are jeopardizing data center completion dates, putting owners and contractors in a tough position and winding up with project schedules far outpaced by technology.
Based on the results of an exclusive survey by Data Center Frontier and BluePrint Supply Chain, we'll break down the impacts of the latest construction supply chain disruption differentiators and explore innovative resilience strategies. Walk away with critical insight on optimizing contractor coordination, storage, transport, rigging, and setting to conquer tight budgets and construction timelines and get your data center up and running faster. A 15 minute results presentation will precede a 20 minute moderated Q/A with BluePrint and a 10 minute attendee Q/A.
