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Sydney
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Everyone is racing to add accelerators, but rack densities are pushing well past what most existing power and cooling infrastructure was ever designed for.
For data centre design, critical infrastructure, facilities and technology leaders.
A facility designed around a comfortable per-rack figure does not gracefully accommodate several times that number. Power distribution, thermal capacity and floor loading all reach their limits at different points, and rarely the one anyone planned for.
That is the starting point for this series. Not a product session, and not a briefing. A table of senior people working through which physical limit they hit first, whether retrofit or rebuild was the right call, and what they would sequence differently.
Six cities across APAC, between October and November 2026. Each table runs under the Chatham House Rule.
Vertiv 2026 results and investor commentary. Figures pending client verification.
Each table works through the same three questions, shaped by what the room brings to them.
The first question is diagnostic: whether each organisation ran out of power, cooling, floor loading or grid connection first, and how much of the eventual answer was predicted in advance.
// tension: three limits, and only one of them is obviousMoving to liquid cooling is a one-way door in most facilities. This session looks at how organisations made that decision, and what they wish they had known about the operational change.
// differentiator: integrated power, liquid cooling and rack infrastructureConsumption is becoming a permitting question and a public one. The table works through where water use now enters their planning, and how they expect that to change.
// context: near-zero water consumption at high densityEach city is its own table with its own room, confirmed independently. Registration of interest is open now, with dates and venues confirmed city by city.
The industry is rapidly evolving how it designs, builds, operates and services data centers, in response to the density and speed of deployment demands of AI factories.
Scott Armul Chief Product and Technology Officer, Vertiv
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Vertiv sits underneath the part of AI infrastructure nobody photographs: the power trains, the thermal systems and the racks that decide whether any of the compute above them can actually run.
The company is a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, providing power, cooling and IT infrastructure for mission-critical data centres.
Innovatus Media is a Sydney based B2B events agency that runs invitation-only executive roundtable series across APAC, EMEA and North America.
We convene senior decision makers for closed door conversations on the problems they are actually working on, and produce every element of the series end to end, from the room and the table to the follow up.
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