Upcoming Industry Events

Session: Malaysia as APAC's Next Hyperscale Hub – What Investors Want

Date: August 13, 2026, 1:40 PM - 2:30 PM

Speaker: Patrick Chan, Managing Director, South Asia, Uptime Institute

Panel: Enterprise AI Capacity Planning: Procurement, Platform Choices, and Operational Reality

Date: September 16, 2026, 11:20 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker: Naveed Saeed, Vice President, Global Technical Management

Debate: Are our sustainability frameworks delivering real progress, or masking true the impact?

Date: September 16, 2026, 10:00-10:45 AM

Speaker: Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute

Infrastructure expansion is exposing the limits of established sustainability systems. Operators can secure strong results under LEED, BREEAM, and Scope 3 reporting while still missing the full environmental burden of rapid, large‑scale development. With Scope 3 now representing the majority of total emissions and tenant data is often estimated or unavailable, the reliability of these frameworks is increasingly questioned. The central issue is whether current standards still capture real‑world impact, or whether they have evolved into score‑optimisation mechanisms in a sector growing faster than its oversight tools.

This session will examine:

• Whether frameworks measure real environmental impact
• The limits of using generic building standards for data center design and operations
• How viable Scope 3 reporting is when colocation tenant data is opaque
• The need to include embodied carbon, biodiversity, and supply‑chain impacts in metrics
• Whether the sector can judge if frameworks deliver measurable real‑world outcomes

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer, Uptime Institute

Panel: Cooling the Curve: Can the Industry Scale Fast Enough for AI?

Date: September 26, 2026, 10:05 AM - 11:00 AM

Speaker: Jacqueline Davis, Research Analyst, Uptime Intelligence

AI infrastructure is scaling at a pace the cooling industry has never seen before. Rack densities are rising exponentially, chip roadmaps are compressing into six-month cycles, and operators are demanding solutions that can be deployed globally, reliably, and at unprecedented speed.

But this is not just a technology challenge. It is a manufacturing challenge, a supply chain challenge, a financing challenge, and ultimately a business model challenge. Can the cooling ecosystem scale quickly enough to keep pace with AI demand without compromising reliability, efficiency, or long-term interoperability?

This panel explores how cooling vendors, operators, investors, and integrators are responding to one of the steepest infrastructure growth curves in modern industrial history. From factory capacity and deployment models to standardization, partnerships, and new commercial structures, we examine what it takes to scale cooling from niche engineering discipline to the mission-critical AI infrastructure industry.

DCD>Debate: Machine‑led vs. human‑led - Who should run operations?

Date: October 26, 2026, 13:30 — 14:15

Speaker: Mustapha Louni, Chief Business Officer, Uptime Institute