DATA CENTRE STRATEGY
From capex to capability: the next frontier High-profile initiatives among technologists and solution providers reinforce the sector’ s ongoing transition.
Schneider Electric, for example, has highlighted the mission-critical status of cooling in making high-density AI data centres feasible.
Discussing the company’ s partnership with Nvidia, Olivier Blum, CEO of Schneider Electric, emphasises the importance of collaboration for the future of AI and the data centre investments this will entail.
“ Schneider Electric and Nvidia are not just partners – our teams are driving advanced R & D, co-developing the infrastructure needed to power the next wave of AI factories globally.
“ Together, we’ ve seen tremendous success in deploying next-generation power and liquid cooling solutions, purpose-built for AI data centres.”
Meanwhile, modular approaches by companies like Vertiv are accelerating delivery of fully operational sites and enabling flexibility for investors.
Vertiv recently unveiled OneCore, a global prefab solution to cut deployment time and simplify high-density data centre builds for AI and HPC infrastructure.
“ Vertiv OneCore is our answer to the need for reducing complexity and enabling speed in building data centre capacity at scale,” says Viktor Petik, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Solutions at Vertiv.
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