Connect | APAC // DCD Talks Industrializing the data center power train for APAC's AI era with Justin Kellerman | XCircle

APAC’s AI-driven data center build-out is being constrained by one thing: power. Lead times for transformers, switchgear and power distribution are stretching project schedules to breaking point, and no single supplier can meet the region’s demand alone.

In this session, Justin Kellerman, CEO of XCircle, shares how industrialised, factory-built electrical infrastructure, including Power Train Units (PTUs), Transformer Kiosks (TXKs) and HV Switchrooms, is reshaping how hyperscalers, colocation operators and developers bring power to rack. Drawing on XCircle's vendor-neutral approach and the imminent opening of a new 6,500m² assembly-line facility capable of delivering multiple prefabricated solutions per month, this session will unpack why standardisation, vertical integration and factory acceptance testing are becoming the default answer to AI-era power delivery, and why "sharing the load" across multiple manufacturing partners is now essential to protecting operator delivery schedules.

This session will unpack: 

• Why transformer, switchgear and LV distribution lead times, not land or compute, are now the binding constraint on APAC data centre capacity
• How PTUs, Transformer Kiosks and HV Switchrooms work together as a factory-built, pre-integrated electrical backbone, and what each element removes from the site critical path
• Why a vendor-neutral approach and a broader manufacturing base are becoming essential to de-risk hyperscale and operator programmes in a capacity-constrained APAC market
• How XCircle's Neerabup expansion is adding capacity to the regional supply base, enabling multiple prefabricated solutions per month and giving operators more options to hit AI-era delivery milestones