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Data Center World
The Epicenter of Data Center Innovation: The Largest Expo Featuring 400+ Exhibitors
The data center industry faces unprecedented challenges: skyrocketing demand, supply constraints, and a rapidly evolving workforce. But the most critical issue? Power—its sourcing, sustainability, and scalability for an AI-driven future.

Enter Data Center World 2026—the only global industry event where real-world expertise meets cutting-edge research and insight. We’ll tackle the industry’s most pressing issues: * Next-Gen Power Architectures * Sustainable Energy Solutions * AI-Driven Optimization * Mission-Critical Facilities Management * Emerging Construction Practices * Tools for Building and Operating AI Factories *

With the largest global gathering of 400+ data center solution providers, our Expo offers unparalleled access to the latest technologies and services shaping the industry’s future. The pace of innovation in the data center space is staggering. Powering this evolution is the challenge—and the opportunity—of a generation. Attend the one industry event that covers the full spectrum of data center trends that matter most.

Four Days of Game-Changing Insights & Invaluable Connections

85+ Conference Sessions
130+ Speakers
400+ Exhibiting Vendors
Omdia Analyst Summit
Investor Forum
Innovation Challenge
Industry-Defining Keynotes
Data Center Manager of the Year
Intensive Workshops
Women in the Data Center Reception
Event Experiences

2026 Conference Tracks
Data Center World delivers expert strategy and insight on the technologies and concepts you need to know to plan, manage, and optimize your data center. Data Center World educational programming focuses on addressing challenges like legacy vs generative AI, cooling technologies, finding alternative energy sources, colocation, and adoption of automation in the data center.

Network
Mix and mingle with other leading industry professionals. Data Center World offers more networking opportunities with peer professionals and industry luminaries than any other event of its kind. Data Center World attendees walking through expo hall, with text overlay of Leading Solution Providers
Explore
Featuring the largest data center Expo in the world, over 400 solution providers will be on hand to demonstrate products and services you can compare in real time to help you optimize your data center.
Learn
Improve your data center management skills and stay current with educational sessions, including keynotes, panel discussions, case study presentations and exclusive workshops.

Expo Hall: Explore 400+ Exhibitors Driving the Industry Forward
Find Solutions for Your Challenges at the World’s Largest Data Center Expo

As disruptive technologies such as cloud, edge computing and IoT drive rapid change across all sectors, the data center remains at the core of business infrastructure.

Data Center World’s Expo Hall is the only place to find the key data center technology providers displaying their solutions in one location. Network with leading solution providers and uncover all the latest technologies, products and services your company needs.

Omdia Analyst Summit: Where is AI really headed?
Analyst insight into how AI computing will change the data center out to 2030

Popular opinion on AI computing is split between those perceiving the ramping investment as a bubble, and those convinced by the technological advancements, therefore risking underinvestment. In this session, the Omdia analyst team will show data-backed AI adoption and technology development projections.

Exploring key themes on how computing will increasingly be planned at the rack level, with multiple parallel development efforts driving different facility requirement for data center operators. Powering and cooling AI computing will increasingly become application or even end-user-specific. To provide a range of views on this, Omdia will bring in experts from technology innovators for two industry panels.

Real Answers For Today’s Data Center Issues
Data Center World isn’t just a conference. It’s an opportunity to get hands-on time with leading solution providers, attend technical labs, and speak with a collective of like-minded and connected individuals who are shaping the future of the data center industry. By attending Data Center World, you’re making an investment in your career as well as an investment in your company’s success.

  • Network with the smartest and most innovative people in the data center industry
  • Access to the latest data center technologies
  • Learn new concepts for managing and expanding your data center that save your company money
  • Learn new efficiencies in energy control that both improve the environment and lower costs
  • Be among the first in the industry to learn about new product launches
  • Learn how to keep costs down as your data center needs and workload expands

Emerging IT & Data Center Technologies

This track focuses on IT advancements that have recently begun to impact the data center,
providing a practical look at emerging technologies and processes. You’ll hear about the most buzz-worthy topics in the news and takeaway an understanding of how they may affect current and future business norms.
Separating fact from hype, you’ll learn from experts who will help you and your team navigate these
ever-changing technologies. Legacy vs generative AI and its effect on IT operations, design, construction, and maintenance.

  • Networking innovation for the AI era
    • Scale up networking for GPU clusters
    • Optical connectivity for AI clusters and co-packaged optics
    • Data center interconnection and fiber innovation
  • High Voltage Power Distribution for AI (e.g. 800V DC)
  • Open compute design frameworks
  • Solid State Transformers
  • Battery backup innovation
  • MW-level rack power distribution
  • Bringing DC into the Data Center
  • Hybrid Cooling Strategies
    • Air and liquid cooling
    • 2-phase liquid cooling
    • Room and facility-level CDUs and CDU clustering
    • Hyper-efficient cooling designs
  • Next Gen IT (AI computing and storage roadmaps)
    • Next-Gen GPU/Accelerator Architectures (GB300, B100/B200 successors, domain-specific AI accelerators)
    • Alternative architectures for AI computing
    • Memory and storage innovation for AI
    • Quantum computing
  • Data center operations innovation
    • Predictive & prescriptive maintenance using AI
    • Energy power management systems innovation
    • DCIM innovation and software tools for efficient operations
    • Risk, governance, security, and explainability in operational AI systems
    • Automation/Robotics
  • The next data center frontier
    • Nuclear-powered data centers
    • Data centers in space
    • Extreme Environment Deployments

Data Center BUILD

This conference track explores how companies are designing and building out their data center architectures for maximum efficiency and performance. We’ll include topics on community relations, outfitting, operating, controlling, maintaining a data center, as well as monitoring operations of assets, and provide expert advice across the spectrum of data center management.

  • Software tools for data center design
  • Power & cooling design for AI
  • Securing multi-gigawatt capacity in constrained markets
  • Securing capacity in constrained markets
  • Build, upgrade, retrofit
  • Site selection
  • Master-planned DC Campuses
  • Community relations
  • Capacity planning or optimization
  • Modular data centers & skidded infrastructure (including prefabrication)
  • Micro data centers
  • Building a gigawatt and multi-gigawatt data center campus
  • Rapid-deploy AI infrastructure (e.g. data center tents)
  • Labor & recruiting
  • Local, national and international compliance (energy, AI ethics, carbon)
  • Data center incentives

Colocation, Hyperscale & Cloud Innovation

This track explores the latest information on colocation, edge computing, cloud strategies and on-premise architectures. We’ll also include topics on application development, systems integration, and workload management.

  • On-premises public and private cloud infrastructure
  • Colocation provider selection criteria
  • Edge computing planning and management
  • Colocation planning and management
  • Colocation for AI (high-density colocation)
  • Managing capacity in volatile AI demand cycles
  • Existing and emerging managed services
  • Public cloud evolution (GPU-aaS, serverless, tools)
  • Multi-Tenant AI Infrastructure Models
  • MLOps (shared and managed services)
  • AI in the cloud
  • Provider sustainability metrics
  • Workload/Cloud Repatriation
  • Private cloud
  • Sovereign cloud / Sovereign AI

Power Sourcing & Sustainability

This track covers the important issues that impact management of a sustainable mission-critical facility, including how data center operators consume and conserve energy, and best practices in tracking carbon emissions.
This year we’ll go deeper into how the insatiable demand for power will push innovation in a variety of new technologies including solar, wind, nuclear and more. We’ll also cover sustainability topics related to the characteristics of scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

  • Power sourcing for sustainability and power-challenged markets
  • On-premises power generation and microgrids
  • Cooling techniques that lower power consumption
  • Power consumption and management for electrical/mechanical systems
  • Water usage
  • Legal restrictions on water use for industrial cooling
  • Regulatory impact
  • Sustainable water consumption strategies
  • Renewable and low carbon energy sources
  • Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact on data centers
  • Decommissioning legacy equipment, electronic waste, responsible disposal
  • Rate reduction programs (grants, rebates)
  • Carbon emissions tracking and accountability
  • Tracking of carbon emissions throughout the supply chain
  • Energy-as-a-service
  • Facilities as net power contributors (Carbon-Negative Data Centers)