Metro Connect Fall Stage

The dynamics of digital infrastructure have completely changed and are still changing. From financing to design, construction, operations and business models, every great opportunity comes with it's own set of unique challenges. Insatiable AI demand is creating bottlenecks everywhere from power availability to in-rack hardware, and the split between training and inference is increasing the demand for both gigawatt scale campuses and modular deployments.  

• How can data center operators and their partners design with flexibility and scale whilst fending off rapid obsolescence?

• How will cooling systems need to be designed to make data centers suitable for AI workloads of increasing density, whilst keeping environmental and community concerns in mind?

• To what extent will inference shift focus towards edge data centers? 

• How can we achieve better cross-ecosystem alignment to enable growth for data center operators and their partners?