Minimising risk in the construction industry is important in encouraging developers and designers to take account of circular economy principles.
Recent news on the release of open-source DeepSeek and its impact on the share price of Nvidia suggests that there may be some striation in the market..Some AI models, though not in the leading peloton, are close behind and more cost-effective.
These applications may place lower demands on processing and cooling and hold a lower facility price point.. Everyone in the room agreed that standing still is not an option..Some believe that we’re reaching the edges of technological development in cooling, certainly from current supply chains.There are other cooling technologies (e.g.
some developed for the defunct space shuttle programme), but these are currently 100x the cost.This rise in density is driving DCs to be all about the utilities, with processing space representing a very small percentage of each development.. With both a rapidly evolving technological marketplace and long project lead times, the same dilemma between customers and infrastructure builders about the timings of decision making is amplified..
The developer needs decisions as early as possible to design, secure power, step through regulatory hurdles and source long-lead components; while the customers want to be able to wait as long as possible to read the market.
Maintaining optionality, speed and cost effectiveness is a problem requiring new solutions.. On top of these challenges there are further known unknowns in the picture: the impact of the move from training AI to the distribution of AI Quantum computing..It is worth noting that complex analogue processes tend to create work for people who specialise in navigating them and this, in turn, raises the barrier of entry to the uninitiated.
This impacts both the small scale developer who finds it too costly to engage with the planning process; and the domestic developer who may require a number of expensive professional consultants to extend their kitchen.. Challenges/blockers/barriers to a digital planning process.Clearly, there are technological challenges to a project such as this, but they are far from insurmountable.
As with all change, the principle barriers will be the cultural shift required..However, because we are not seeking to apply a single solution to the entire process, we will not be seeking to change the entire process at the same time.
(Editor: Heavy-Duty Printers)