Don’t build an AI data centre. Build a platform that can adapt to AI: Ford’s Gangadhar Yasam on rewiring infrastructure for Intelligent Manufacturing
For years, infrastructure has been the line item that boards ask to shrink. Gangadhar Yasam wants it to be the one they ask to grow.
As Head of IT Infrastructure & Data Center Engineering & Strategy for APAC & MEA at Ford Motor Company, Gangadhar Yasam oversees the digital backbone of a geographically distributed manufacturing footprint. He argues that the backbone is now being redrawn by AI, machine vision, robotics and IoT. Decisions that once could wait for the data centre are being made in milliseconds on the production line. GPU racks are pushing power and cooling assumptions past their design limits. Success, he says, can no longer be measured by servers refreshed or projects delivered.
In this conversation, Yasam makes the case that modernisation should begin with a single question: what business capability can this infrastructure enable? He lays out a maturity path from monitoring to automation, a five-part...
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