The Intelligent Data Centre Summit

Beyond Buildout: Monetising AI-Ready Data Centre Infrastructure 

As AI infrastructure investment accelerates, the next key question js how to turn them into sustainable business models. In China, the focus is shifting toward utilisation and coordinated compute markets. Across APAC, shortages in power, space and GPUs are raising the stakes for every investment decision. Globally, hyperscalers, telcos, colocation providers and new AI infrastructure players are all competing to own the value chain. This session explores the emerging monetisation models, ownership dynamics and strategic choices that will determine who captures value in the next phase of intelligent data centre growth.

Powering the AI Era: Scaling Compute Without Scaling Emissions 

5G, AI and edge computing are pushing data centres to the centre of digital growth, but they are also driving a sharp rise in energy use, cooling intensity and carbon exposure. As AI workloads scale, the pressure is no longer just about adding capacity, it is about how to power that growth sustainably where clean energy is not always available where and when it is needed.

This session examines how the industry is responding, from China’s “Eastern Data, Western Computing” strategy to global innovation in energy cooling and storage. At the heart of the discussion is a critical challenge for the AI era: how to scale compute without scaling emissions, cost and energy risk alongside it.