The Dynamics of Designing a Data Center

If you’re designing a data center, this means you’re going to have more than your fair share of variables and challenges to juggle. For starters, an increasing need to accommodate Artificial Intelligence (and other High Performance Compute applications) while also meeting efficiency goals, as well as a host of new challenges that come from construction advancing into urban spaces. No one understands these challenges more than a professional who designs data centers every day. 

Join us, as we sit down with Joy Hughes, Design Manager at Gensler. Hughes, who has more than 23 years of experience and serves as the Executive Director of 7x24's Rocky Mountain Chapter, is her firm’s Critical Facilities Leader.

We’ll be discussing: 

•How the world of data center design has changed in the last two decades
•Whether or not communities benefit from mixed-use data centers
•The impacts of AI on the foundation of data center design
•What utilizing waste heat from data centers looks like
•What decisions really impact and reduce carbon costs