Enabling the next generation of AI data centers

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scale and complexity of data center infrastructure.

Traditional data center facilities were designed around relatively steady CPU workloads and predictable growth in power demand, allowing developers to secure energy supply alongside growing demand, cooling systems based on known and mature technology and infrastructure capacity with a reasonable degree of certainty.

AI workloads, however, demand far more power with greater energy density.

Senior Director of Power Networks at Worley.

Electricity consumption from data centers has grown at 12% per year over the last five years and expected demand growth, particularly in AI training data centers, is set to drive a substantial increase in power demand.

Meeting this demand, while maintaining efficiency, is pushing developers toward gigawatt-scale data centers and with the timeframe for delivering these facilities rapidly compressing, the ability to deliver new infrastructure efficiently is increasingly critical.

In addition, as the scale of these...

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