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Data Center Factory Expands to Handle AI Workload Demand
Prefabricated building facility grows capacity in response to predicted $8.6B global market
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Schneider Electric
AI is driving unprecedented demand for processing capacity, triggering the creation of new data centers and the expansion of existing facilities.
In response, the digital automation multinational Schneider Electric has increased the size and capacity of its Barcelona prefabricated data center factory, the company’s largest in Europe.
Schneider has increased the facility’s footprint from 75,000 square feet to 130,000 square feet to meet growing customer demand for prefabricated, high-compute workload data centers.
The investment has enabled the company to double the end-to-end production, integration, testing and output capabilities for both its all-in-one modular data centers and prefabricated power modules.
Schneider designs, builds and tests its scalable ExoStruxure modular data centers at the factory and accompanying logistics center in the Saint Boi de Llobregat area of Barcelona.
According to research by analysis company Omdia, global sales of prefabricated modular data center systems are set to generate $8.6 billion in 2027, with PWC Global estimating that AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030.
“Prefabricated modular data centers are one of the most efficient and sustainable ways to design and deploy high-performance data center capacity at speed and scale while ensuring less wastage, optimized production and a reduction in the embedded carbon within the space,” said senior vice president of Schneider’s electric secure power and data center business Marc Garner.
“By scaling up our end-to-end production capacity in Barcelona, we’re reinforcing our supply chain capabilities at a time of unprecedented growth and ensuring customers in Europe have access to fast, predictable and high-quality data center solutions, which can be designed and operational in as little as 24 weeks.”
Schneider Electric recently announced a $3 billion multi-year agreement with Compass Datacenters to integrate both organizations’ supply chains and manufacture prefabricated modular data centers at scale.
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