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AI DATA CENTRE BOOM RAISES THE STAKES ON DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
As the AI data centre boom drives record levels of investment and construction, the industry is being urged to ensure commissioning standards and environmental accountability keep pace with the breakneck speed of delivery. Louis Charlton, Group CEO of the Global Certification & Verification Group, offers his view on the commissioning and verification standards that should be considered, while Structure Research’ s report outlines the balance between unprecedented infrastructure growth and long-term sustainability. he AI data centre
T boom is putting commissioning and verification standards under pressure and people are starting to pay attention.
The data centre industry is racing to build the necessary infrastructure to support the next phase of the AI buildout. This year, the five biggest AI infrastructure companies will spend somewhere between $ 660 billion and $ 690 billion on building AI data centres, almost twice what they spent in 2025. Worldwide data centre power consumption is forecast to grow by 50 % between 2025 and 2027, rising by as much as 165 % by the end of the decade.
The hurdles that have arisen as a result of meeting this generational
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