6 kW to 150 kW: Equinix’s Manoj Paul on the changing architecture of AI data centres
For much of India’s data centre expansion, scale has been expressed in megawatts. The larger the announced capacity, the larger the perceived significance of the project. That metric still matters, particularly as cloud and AI workloads drive demand for increasingly dense computing infrastructure. But it is no longer sufficient to describe what enterprises actually need from a data centre.
The more complicated question is what sits around that power. For enterprises running workloads across multiple clouds, networks and service providers, connectivity and proximity can matter as much as physical capacity. That is changing the nature of the data centre conversation, says Manoj Paul, Managing Director, India, Equinix.
“When we talk to our customers, they see our value and the discussion moves away from megawatts all the way to what value we are creating for them,” he adds.
The distinction is important because the requirements of a hyperscaler and those of...
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