Rush to build AI data centers pushes global infrastructure to limits

TECH REPUBLIC

While data center developers race to support increasingly dense AI workloads, operators struggle to ensure timely access to energy grids. As such, power availability has become “the biggest single challenge” for delivering data centers, with 48 percent of respondents citing it as the main obstacle to meeting delivery schedules.

Perhaps the most striking finding of the study revealed that 83 percent of experts believe “supply chains are not well-equipped to deliver the advanced cooling technologies required for AI data centers.”

Turner & Townsend’s research shows that as AI data centers require more power and advanced liquid-cooling systems, both utilities and suppliers must rapidly evolve to keep pace with the technological shift and increased AI demand.

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