Keynotes
Can Europe triple capacity without breaking the grid?
Keynote Speaker:
- Svein Alte Hagaseth, Founder and CEO, Heim Datacenter
- Amy Daniell, Senior Vice President Strategy & Development, STACK Infrastructure
Moderator: Bill Kleyman, Executive Chair, Data Center World Europe Advisory Board Chair, CEO and Co-Founder, Apolo.us
Europe's data centre market stands at a critical juncture. Demand is surging, capacity must triple by 2027, yet grid connection queues can stretch multiple years, sustainability mandates are tightening, the AI race is demanding ever-more complex designs and power requirements, and communities are pushing back. How do Europe’s data centre leaders navigate this perfect storm? This is a leadership conversation about the choices that will determine whether Europe leads or lags in the AI infrastructure era.
The AI Factory fast track: Europe’s emerging model of sovereign, off-grid data center infrastructure
Keynote Speakers:
- Rod Evans, EMEA Vice President Supercomputing & AI, NVIDIA
- Cosmin Georgescu, CEO and Founder, ClusterPower
- Jonathan Berney, Managing Partner, Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC)
Moderator: Bill Kleyman, Executive Chair, Data Center World Europe Advisory Board Chair, CEO and Co-Founder, Apolo.us
As traditional data centre construction sputters under electrical grid connection delays, agile neoclouds are rewriting the deployment playbook. Featuring ClusterPower’s landmark 800MW complex in Romania, this panel demonstrates how neoclouds turn years-long data centre planning cycles into 12-month delivery. It will explore how this fast-paced physical infrastructure planning meshes with the architecture shifts and innovations driven by NVIDIA and other core data centre providers. The discussion contrasts capital structures, analyses how behind-the-meter generation compresses delivery timelines and reveals the physical differences of dedicated AI factories. The session will demonstrate Eastern Europe’s role in helping solve the continent’s capacity crisis. Speakers will also share how sovereign AI infrastructure navigates EU AI Act, GDPR, and data residency compliance.
Discussion points:
- How can Europe deliver when AI customers need 200MW in 12 months, not 5 years?
- Amid grid constraints and connection delays, can behind-the-meter generation provide genuine capacity to meet AI workload demands?
- What makes AI infrastructure fundamentally different from traditional cloud computing, and how will the AI factory concept define European AI training and inference?
- How do neoclouds structure financing differently, and what impact does behind-the-meter generation have on the infrastructure profile?
- Why are Eastern European markets critical to solving Europe’s capacity crisis?
- How do neoclouds support EU policy objectives around data residency, GDPR compliance and AI Act requirements?