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’ re building 100,000 racks across 100,000 sites worldwide.” That is the bold target after Northstar Enterprise + Defense announced advancements in its AI-optimised modular data centre platform, focusing on edge infrastructure that supports the rapid growth of IoT applications.
Through a strategic collaboration with Owens Corning, the company – a subsidiary of Northstar Technologies Group, Inc. – strengthens the resilience, sustainability and thermal efficiency of its modular data centres.
The partnership positions it at the forefront of the edge AI and modular infrastructure market, which is forecast to reach US $ 269.8bn by 2032.
Northstar’ s approach reflects the evolving demands of IoT at the edge – delivering durable, scalable and energy-efficient data centre solutions purpose-built for realtime AI inference and agentic AI workloads distributed across numerous sites worldwide.
Tony Grayson, Northstar Technologies Group, Inc. President, remarked,“ We’ re not building 100,000 racks in one hyperscale facility – we’ re building 100,000 racks across 100,000 sites worldwide, faster than anyone else.
“ Our advantage isn’ t just in composite technology – it’ s in scalable manufacturing, rapid deployment and unmatched resilience.”
Material innovation and rapid edge deployment The partnership with Owens Corning brings advanced composite and insulation technologies into Northstar’ s modular data centres to achieve lightweight, durable and thermally efficient enclosures.
Dr Chris Skinner, VP of Strategic Marketing and R & D at Owens Corning, said:“ Working closely with Northstar through the development cycle has enabled us to deliver leading composite and insulation solutions for their MDCs, optimising them for their applications.”
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156 December 2025