Panel: Exploring the Key Drivers Behind Why Owner/Operators Harness Retrofit Projects to Accelerate Capacity Delivery

• Identifying the operational, capacity and infrastructure warning signs that indicate when retrofit investments become the fastest path to delivering additional compute capacity
• Examining how AI workloads, higher rack densities and evolving technology demands are pushing existing power, cooling and structural systems beyond their original design limits
• Evaluating how retrofit strategies can accelerate capacity deployment, extend facility utilization and bring AI infrastructure online faster than greenfield development

Speakers:

Ahmed Anwar

Head of Construction

Prometheus Group

Aimee Lopez

Senior Global Program Manager

CBRE

Venkatesh Janakiraman

Associate Principal Electrical Engineer of Mission Critical

The Lamar Johnson Collaborative

Treye Denton

Senior Project Architect of Mission Critical

The Lamar Johnson Collaborative