Inside the AI infrastructure boom: Black Box CEO Sanjeev Verma on what hyperscalers really want now
The language of the data centre industry has changed. A few years ago, capacity was measured in racks and megawatts. Today, the unit of measure is gigawatts — and the ambitions attached to that number are reshaping how the world’s largest technology companies think about infrastructure.
The numbers behind the shift are staggering. The International Energy Agency’s 2026 outlook projects global data-centre electricity consumption will nearly double — from 485 TWh in 2025 to around 950 TWh by 2030 — with AI-focused facilities alone tripling their demand over the same period. Every one of those additional megawatts has to be translated into something physical: racks installed, fibre run, cooling systems commissioned, and millions of individual connections tested until they work as one resilient environment.
That translation — from powered shell to operational hyperscale facility — is where Sanjeev Verma, Whole-time Director and CEO of Black Box, believes the industry’s...
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