AI growth and a rethink of data centre power and cooling
AI is now a driver of data centre expansion everywhere in the world—across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In Europe, the supplied projection puts data centre capacity growth at a compound rate of 25% to 2030, ahead of the effect produced by the shift to public cloud infrastructure over the past decade.
AI workloads change data centre design, and large language models and other AI systems draw more power and produce more heat than many enterprise workloads. Facilities planned around lower rack densities now face requirements that can exceed earlier assumptions. For colocation providers, cloud companies, and data centre operators, this creates engineering, delivery, and cost problems. AI-ready capacity has to be deployed inside limits in grid availability, fibre infrastructure, permitting, regulation, and sustainability reporting. Operators must also protect uptime and site economics.
The response should cover the power chain from the grid connection to the processor. A grid-to-chip...
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