7:00 am Check-In & Networking
8:10 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Achieving Increasing Power, Redundancy & Resiliency Requirements
8:20 am Panel Discussion: Ensuring End-User Electrical Requirements Are Translated into Design to Evolve with Rising Needs
Synopsis
- Discussing the key factors that influence end-users’ decision-making processes when evaluating electrical designs
- Understanding key performance indicators clients look for to design data centers that meet these demands
- Analyzing how rising computing power is affecting end-user priorities for electrical designs to respond to these changes with agility
9:00 am Evaluating the Power & Design Requirements of AI-Ready Modules to Meet Demand Successfully
Synopsis
- Evaluating anticipated higher wattage requirements and the overall cost impact on design once factors such as breakers, cooling, back-up power and monitoring equipment are factored in
- Anticipating the size of high-density modules and how this can be accommodated given space restrictions
- Modelling the optimal distribution network for AI modules: overhead or underground and the pros and cons of each?
- Updating electrical specifications and ensuring flexibility to account for additional and future requirements across all equipment
10:10 am Morning Break & Speed Networking
11:10 am Streamlining the Design Process by Ensuring Due Diligence Studies Inform Early Conversations with Local Authorities
Synopsis
- Uncovering the benefit of a water-tight base electrical design and due diligence report in streamlining early alignment with authorities
- Discussing the different questions that need to be asked across power and permitting to inform robust due diligence, and how this differs between state and county-level jurisdictions
- Making upfront electrical feasibility studies and analysis as efficient as possible to fail fast pre-design
11:50 am Fireside Chat & Audience Discussion: Collaborating with Utility Companies to Future Proof Grid Resiliency
Synopsis
- Sharing the cost effectiveness challenges of utilities charging for maximum versus actual power usage
- Understanding how much power utility companies are allocating for future development
- Exploring how utility companies and developers can align to finance future upgrades to the existing grid
12:30 pm Networking Lunch Break
1:30 pm Creating Bespoke Redundancy Requirements for Specific Computing Systems’ Needs to Reduce Unnecessary Expenditure
Synopsis
- Analyzing how differing IT load types, including AI, ML, quantum computing, or traditional cloud compute require tailored redundancy strategies to eliminate unnecessary infrastructure costs
- Implementing data-driven profiling of load variability, surge behaviour and criticality to clearly define the level of redundancy needed
- Highlighting approaches to segment or zone power systems within racks or data halls to allow high redundancy support for critical AI clusters
Maximizing Space Efficiency
2:10 pm Re-thinking Design of Large Electrical Packages to Reduce Footprint Without Compromising Reliability & Redundancy
Synopsis
- Evaluating the systems and equipment that can be utilized to consolidate the size of electrical packages
- Understanding cost implications of reducing design footprint to inform decision making
- Discussing the main constructability considerations due to equipment footprint, arc flash safety, break ratings and serviceability when looking to reduce footprint
- Evaluating the potential challenges to reliability and system resilience, and the risk of compromising redundancy across the whole system when minimizing physical infrastructure
2:50 pm Evaluating Overhead Versus Underground Electrical Distribution Strategies to Determine the Best Solution for Your Facility
Synopsis
- Comparing the pros and cons of overhead and underfloor distribution, and their resulting suitability to hyperscaler vs co-locator environments
- Revealing how overhead busways, cable trays and power whips affect structural and mechanical engineering considerations, as well as onsite safety risks for contractors and facilities staff
- Evaluating how factors such as soil quality, thermal resistivity and the resulting feeder size and other considerations can impact the cost and schedule of underground electrical distribution systems, and some of the ways to offset this
3:30 pm Afternoon Networking Break
4:00 pm Examining the Evolving Electrical Infrastructure Challenges for Liquid- Based Cooling Systems
Synopsis
- Understanding how liquid cooling is changing the electrical load profile of each rack and the systems that can support higher power requirements
- Determining the core system components that require back up for liquid cooling
- Troubleshooting the practical issues of fitting even more power gear into already constrained spaces and alongside water systems to enable liquid cooling across every rack
Mitigating Delays from Procurement
4:40 pm Designing Initial Electrical Systems to Allow Refinement & Overcome Procurement Challenges
Synopsis
- Showing how intentional design allows stakeholders to adjust electrical scope later based on equipment availability without redesigning core infrastructure and compromising delivery timelines
- Examining how this supports end users and design teams weighing operational efficiency against cost throughout the design evolution
- Mapping a step-by-step design and refinement timeline to maximize efficiency, spend and constructability