Join Our Upcoming Webinar: AI Q&A: Lessons from the Field – Addressing the Unique Challenges of Commissioning AI-Ready Infrastructure

AI is rewriting the rules of data center delivery. With rack densities reaching 40–400 kW, capacity topping 500 MW, direct liquid cooling, and GPU workloads that swing violently between idle and peak, conventional commissioning no longer goes far enough. This webinar will cover how to integrate the novel technologies of an AI facility into a rigorous and comprehensive commissioning program that delivers systematic quality assurance through owner handover. We will break down the five commissioning test levels with a focus on Levels 4 and 5 and tackle the challenges unique to AI: simulating volatile GPU power profiles with purpose-built load banks, validating still-maturing liquid-cooling systems, integrating IT and facility testing under compressed timelines, and planning through to decommissioning.

Whether you are building, retrofitting, or evaluating vendors, join us for a technical, field-tested look at what it takes to commission AI-Ready infrastructure successfully—drawing on lessons learned from commissioning real AI workloads in engagements Uptime Institute has served as an independent consultant, so your teams can anticipate — and providing you with the risks, how to validate performance, and apply proven practices before learning them the hard way.

Now in its 16th year, the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey reveals an industry that continues to expand, invest and adapt — but under intensifying constraints and in the face of growing complexity and scrutiny. Demand remains strong, driven increasingly by the need to support high-density and AI-related workloads, but operators must navigate challenges such as limited power availability, falling grid reliability, rising costs, supply chain limits and staffing shortages.

This 13-page executive summary is an excerpt of a much more detailed 32-page report available to Uptime Network and Uptime Intelligence customers.

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