Executive Roundtable: How New Data Center Designs Will Meet Shifting Industry Paradigms

Data Center Frontier// In the first installment of our Q1 Executive Roundtable, we ask five data center industry leaders about ways the unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure for AI and the cloud, and attendant core concerns surrounding cooling, power and sustainability, are giving rise to new paradigms for data center design.

Summary

  • Increasing pressures on the data center industry – including power reliability and sustainability – are fueling interest in nuclear power, notably SMRs
  • Nuclear power has gained acceptance in recent years as a clean solution to overcome rising pollution and climate change while also appealing to those who see it as a means to fuel industrialization and economic growth.
  • Despite its growing acceptance, myths about nuclear power and SMRs continue to persist.