Panel: Chasing power: how to meet future requirements

Whilst it’s currently impossible to forecast the exact power requirements for emerging workloads, the demand is not slowing down. A major barrier to entry in AI data centre build is access to power, as grids can’t keep up. Equally, energy grids and connectivity hubs aren’t typically aligned, which raises questions about how meet demand for dark fibre and data centre internetworking. Panellists will evaluate to what extent there has been a material shift in data centre locations in Europe due to power, which countries are putting in place measures to secure data centre power (and what the European Commission is doing) and therefore where connectivity providers consider the priority to deploy fibre to these new data centres.