How to Build an AI Data Center
- Author: Brian Potter
- Full Title: How to Build an AI Data Center
- Category: articles
- Document Tags: #tech
- URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-an-ai-data-center?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
Highlights
- Power availability has already become a key bottleneck to building new data centers. Some jurisdictions, including ones where data centers have historically been a major business, are curtailing construction. Singapore is one of the largest data center hubs in the world, but paused construction of them between 2019 and 2022, and instituted strict efficiency requirements after the pause was lifted. In Ireland, a moratorium has been placed on new data centers in the Dublin area until 2028. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, but one county recently rejected a data center application for the first time in the county’s history due to power availability concerns. (View Highlight)