THE DATA CENTRE INTERVIEW
The US continues to invest heavily into AI data centres. With US President Donald Trump eager to become the world’ s most dominant AI infrastructure player – in addition to clamping down on US tariffs – the country could critically impact the data centre industry in the rest of the world.
Currently, the country has the highest concentration of data centres in the world, with investment only continuing to surge on account of AI technologies.
With this in mind, Data Centre Magazine recently spoke with Joe Capes, CEO and Co-founder at LiquidStack, about how dramatic US data centre growth could reshape the global AI landscape and create more competition – and therefore more demand – worldwide.
“ Surges in liquid cooling adoption could accelerate AI adoption globally by removing what has traditionally been a constraint to increasing compute power: thermal management,” he says.
“ Advancements in AI-specific infrastructure, coupled with economies of scale, will reduce the cost of AI resources and enable cloud providers to offer more robust AI services worldwide.”
The impact of Stargate As the US remains dominant in AI infrastructure, Joe explains how the country has also raised concerns over talent migration, data sovereignty
50 June 2025