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Whilst Northern Virginia remains the data center capital of the world, the demand for new builds and shifting power dynamics has resulted in changing construction and site selection trends in North America. With space and power limited, new regions are being explored with higher risks of hurricanes, floods and other risks. But with greater challenges in building in rural locations and a higher need for latency, will it continue to be a case of ‘go wherever there is power’?. This episode will explore:

• Data centers going rural - what are the design and risk considerations?
• Whether data centers will continue to take a ‘go where there is power’ approach as training turns to inference
• The risk management considerations of moving into secondary and tertiary markets
• Managing the obsolescence risks of AI data centers