By David Gordon
Publication Date: 2025-12-16 09:01:00
Sponsored post AI is changing the face of “good” in the modern data center. It’s not just about buying faster hardware. Power caps, rack density, cooling, and daily operations are becoming top design constraints, especially as organizations transition from pilot workloads to always-on AI workloads.
In this Hot Seat Video, Tim Phillips talks to Dave Strong, director of professional and advisory services for the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa at HPE, about what that shift means for business planning. Strong describes the change as seismic and argues that data centers built for a previous era can become a limiting factor if organizations do not adapt.
A key idea in the conversation is the “AI factory.” In Strong’s framework, you put energy and data, apply computing, and aim to get useful information. That mindset pushes teams to think beyond servers and storage and consider facilities, platforms, and operations together.
