Connor Donaldson
Senior Director - Data Center Advisory & Commercial Development Core Data Centres
Seminars
Thursday 8th October 2026
Q&A Panel: What Does the Future of Canadian Data Centre Construction Look Like?
1:30 pm
What does the AI revolution mean for the construction of data centres in Canada, particularly as AI sovereignty, clean energy mandates, and grid constraints reshape where and how infrastructure is built? Is the era of air cooling in construction officially over as high-density liquid systems become the new standard? Will nuclear and other low-carbon energy sources play a growing role in powering Canadian data centres in the near future? And how will the rise of edge and regionalisation reshape Canada’s cloud footprint over the next five years? Join this Q&A panel with leading data centre experts and get your burning questions answered.
Wednesday 7th October 2026
Case Study: Retrofitting Live Data Centres for AI Density While Upgrading Cooling, Power, & Operational Resilience
11:30 am
- Transitioning from air-to-water cooling architectures to support AI workloads above 20kW/rack while maintaining uptime during phased live-site migration
- Upgrading floor PDUs from 208V to 415V to reduce cable losses, improve OEM server compatibility, and increase rack power capacity in operational environments
- Coordinating secondary cooling redundancy, buffer tank integration, and operational readiness planning to reduce thermal, leak, and changeover risk before IT migration begins
