Connect | London // Commissioning the Future: Delivering data centers across the full lifecycle

Data center commissioning has evolved far beyond final-stage testing; it is now a critical discipline that influences projects from concept through operations. This panel will explore how commissioning shapes the entire data center lifecycle, beginning at the design stage where systems, resilience strategies, and operational intent are rigorously scrutinized long before construction begins.

The discussion will examine how designers, contractors, commissioning agents, owners, operators, and operations teams must work together from pre-construction onward to ensure facilities can be delivered, validated, and operated successfully. Panelists will also discuss the growing need for multidisciplinary talent across the industry, bringing expertise from diverse technical backgrounds to feed operational logic into increasingly complex digital infrastructure programs.