Navigating the AI-Driven Edge: Resilience and Sustainability in Focus

In this keynote, Astrid Groves – GM Channels, Alliances and Operations of APC at Schneider Electric Australia, aims to educate and empower the market on differentiating technology through a sustainability lens.

Astrid highlights the significant macro trends in the industry, such as the massive data generation driven by AI, IoT, and electric vehicles, which in turn demand faster CPUs and GPUs. This surge in data necessitates energy transitions, from coal-fired power to renewables, posing a challenge for global competitiveness. She emphasises that AI and digitalisation are creating unprecedented power consumption growth in data centres, predicting a substantial increase in energy demand for AI workloads over the next few years.

She stresses the need for data centres to adapt to this rapid technological change by becoming more sustainable, efficient, and resilient. Astrid references designs aimed at retrofitting existing data centres and building new ones to handle futuristic AI demands. She underscores…