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  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    Goldman Sachs analysts estimate current global demand to be approximately 62 gigawatts, comprised of cloud workloads (58%), traditional workloads (29%), and AI workloads (13%). AI is projected to grow ...
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  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), data centres are responsible for about 1.5%, or 415 Terawatt-Hours (TWh), of the world's total yearly electricity consumption. This has grown by 12% ...
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  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    Joint venture partnerships with energy providers are becoming increasingly common with innovative project structures being introduced to help meet demands. Close cooperation with energy providers is a ...
  2. Expo Floor - Innovation Zone
    45 mins
    • Innovation Theatre
    Data centres have traditionally drawn their energy needs from the grid, however more focus has turned to data centres constructing their own behind-the-meter energy generation and storage infrastructu ...
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  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre

    Operators are now facing the prospect of building multiple facilities concurrently, potentially across different site locations, instead of taking up to five years to bring a site online, the average development cycle is down to 18-24 months. A modular approach can help to refine and streamline the process at a time when speed and efficiency are top priorities to service the overwhelming demand for new facilities. 

    • How does a modularity and a programmatic approach help to solve the design challenge; standardised on components, additional manufacturers 

    • What is going to be the winning architecture? 

    • Retrofitting modularity is much more challenging, how does this affect initial planning 

  2. Expo Floor - Innovation Zone
    15 mins
    • Innovation Theatre
  3. Engage Theatre - Engage Zone
    45 mins
    • Engage Theatre
    The European Commission is working on a number of data centre initiatives including the Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package alongside the Strategic Roadmap on Digitalisation and AI for the Energy Se ...
13:20
  1. Expo Floor - Innovation Zone
    15 mins
    • Innovation Theatre
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  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    Lead times for critical equipment continue to extend, geopolitical tensions complicate sourcing, power constraints limit site viability, and sustainability requirements introduce entirely new procurem ...
  2. Engage Theatre - Engage Zone
    25 mins
    • Engage Theatre
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  1. Engage Theatre - Engage Zone
    25 mins
    • Engage Theatre
11:30
  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    This panel will explore how contracting trends are changing due to the scale of AI gigafactories. Contract terms are varying to spread out the risk between the tenant and the operator. Early terminati ...
  2. Engage Theatre - Engage Zone
    45 mins
    • Engage Theatre
    SMRs ability to provide stable, low- carbon energy could play a vital role in transforming the energy landscape.  • What is the timeline including permitting and licensing  • What are the regulations ...
12:15
  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    AC has dominated commercial and data centre power distribution for decades due to its ease of transmission and standardized equipment. DC power is gaining momentum as AI workloads push traditional inf ...
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  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    The global energy storage industry is growing steadily, fuelled by the world's transition to clean energy.  Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are emerging as a key technology to help data centres ...
  2. Engage Theatre - Engage Zone
    45 mins
    • Engage Theatre
      Increasing power constraints and ballooning project scale, efficiency improvements are now essential for data centre operations.  How are predictive maintenance software and software-powered cooling ...
13:45
  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    Portfolio financings allow developers to consolidate multiple single-asset financings into a unified structure, reflecting the sector's growing maturity and need for more scalable funding models. ABS prov ...
14:10
  1. Expo Floor - Innovation Zone
    45 mins
    • Innovation Theatre
    Across the Nordics, data centers are increasingly being seen and incorporated as part of broader energy systems, rather than as isolated power consumers. While this approach is not yet standard, the r ...
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  1. Engage Theatre - Engage Zone
    45 mins
    • Engage Theatre
    The high computing power and rack spacing needs associated with AI data centres will require larger footprints for AI data centres, which in markets with constraints on land availability. Constructing ...
10:45
  1. Keynote Theatre - Discovery Zone
    45 mins
    • Keynote Theatre
    Across the globe, AI factories are rising. This giant data centre has become the new unit of computing, and the way these GPUs are connected defines what this unit of computing can do. One network arc ...