Panel: Building responsible data centers: Delivering sustainable operations at scale

As sustainability shifts from a corporate ambition to a commercial, procurement and regulatory requirement, ICT infrastructure choices are becoming central to how data centres meet sustainability objectives, win customers, meet increasing demand, and scale responsibly. This panel brings together leading ICT vendors, operators and buyers to explore how sustainability is reshaping technology selection, vendor relationships and long-term infrastructure strategy. Key topics of discussion will include:

• Sustainability as a buying decision - How hyperscalers and enterprise customers are embedding energy efficiency, carbon transparency and lifecycle impact directly into ICT RFPs and what this means for vendor differentiation, procurement strategy and long-term partnerships.
• The ICT supply-side shift - How ICT equipment manufacturers are redesigning servers, networking and software platforms to deliver higher performance per watt, lower embodied carbon, longer asset life and clearer sustainability metrics, moving sustainability from a marketing claim to a measurable purchasing criterion.
• Building responsibly at scale - How operators and vendors are enabling data center growth through smarter ICT architecture, workload optimisation and infrastructure efficiency, supporting higher-density deployments while maintaining operational resilience, cost discipline and sustainability commitments.