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PTC'26 Alaka'i Stage: As the World Turns: Data Center Edition

Listen in on this PTC'26 session as industry leaders share valuable insights. As AI reshapes the digital economy, data centers, networks, and power infrastructure are entering a new era of unprecedented scale and complexity. In “As the World Turns: Data Center Edition,” industry leaders explore how AI, hyperscale growth, data sovereignty, and energy constraints are redefining the future of global digital infrastructure. This expert panel dives into the explosive growth of AI-driven data demand, the rising importance of power generation and transmission, and how internet traffic patterns are evolving from asymmetric content delivery to more interactive, inference-driven workloads. The discussion also explores emerging models like space-based data storage, the growing role of data sovereignty, and why inference may soon dwarf AI training in size and impact. Speakers: • Dave Schaeffer, Founder & CEO, Cogent Communications • Craig Scroggie, CEO and Managing Director, NEXTDC • Christopher Stott, Chairman and CEO, Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. • Tony Rossabi, Founder & Managing Member, OCOLO → Learn more: https://www.ptc.org/?utm_source=youtu... Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & panel overview 00:28 Global internet traffic growth and network scale 01:28 Hyperscale and enterprise data center expansion 02:55 AI as a generational shift for digital infrastructure 03:53 Power, planning, and operational complexity 05:09 The future of internet transport and traffic growth 07:50 Data centers in space and new infrastructure models 09:50 AI-era constraints: power, transmission, and scale 13:05 AI, energy systems, and sustainability challenges 17:22 Data explosion, sovereignty, and regulation 20:30 CDN evolution and sovereign AI architectures 21:35 Training vs. inference and AI factories 25:27 Closing remarks Topics covered include: AI’s impact on data center scale and power requirements Transmission infrastructure as the next major bottleneck The future of global internet traffic and network architecture Data sovereignty, regulation, and national control Space as a complementary data center region Why inference is the next major wave of AI deployment