• • • DATA CENTRES • • •
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC AND GREENSCALE
PARTNER TO DEVELOP NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR AI-READY, ENHANCED DATA CENTRE OPERATIONS
Further, by partnering with BY THIERRY CHAMAYOU,
VP CLOUD AND SERVICE PROVIDER, EUROPE, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC AND DAN THOMAS,
CEO, GREENSCALE
he collaboration will see Schneider Electric’s Secure Power and Services divisions provide technical engineering and design consultancy to GreenScale, helping improve predictability, accelerate deployment and reduce operational risk by leveraging advanced automation, predictive analytics and condition-based maintenance.
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GreenScale brings significant experience in data centre operations, software and digital twin technology and will contribute a customer perspective on how infrastructure should be designed, deployed and managed in practice. Together, the organisations will define new operationally enhanced AI-ready reference architectures.
GreenScale is developing data centres in new
power-rich markets with strong renewable energy potential, with a focus on sustainability, positive community impact and long-term regional investment. GreenScale’s partnership with Schneider Electric supports innovations including condition-based maintenance, digital twin integration and enhanced remote monitoring and control capabilities. These help maintain efficient and reliable performance while minimising service risk, enabling high operational standards, improved safety and consistent performance across all locations.
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Schneider Electric to develop the new, AI-ready reference architectures, GreenScale is embedding intelligence and automation into its designs. This includes using predictive analytics and condition-based maintenance to optimise asset performance, lower lifecycle costs and enable more effective supply chain planning. These capabilities, particularly valuable in remote or emerging regions, improve uptime, reduce the risk of human error and strengthen on-site operations teams, allowing them to focus on higher-value, targeted maintenance and interventions. “As demand for AI, Cloud and HPC accelerates in Europe, data centre operators must rethink how facilities are designed and managed,” says Dan Thomas, CEO, GreenScale. “Our work with Schneider Electric demonstrates how advanced data center architectures and digital innovation can unlock new levels of automation, efficiency and resilience and will set a new standard for intelligent design to benefit our customers.” “GreenScale’s vision for its European data centres represents a new era in advanced design, where automation, efficiency and real-time visibility
are embedded from day one,” says Thierry Chamayou, VP, Cloud and Service Providers, Europe, Schneider Electric. “By combining expertise from our Secure Power and Services divisions, we are helping to create a resilient, AI-ready infrastructure platform that will operate efficiently even in the most demanding environments.”
A new era for intelligent design GreenScale’s data centres are expected to play a key role in supporting the growth of sustainable AI and cloud infrastructure, setting a benchmark for next-generation data centre design in Europe. The collaboration with Schneider Electric supports the integration of a unified instrumentation, monitoring and control stack that connects physical infrastructure with digital systems through sensors and intelligent, remote tracking. This holistic approach ensures that GreenScale’s campuses support high-density AI clusters and cloud computing workloads, while maintaining unparalleled levels of performance and efficiency.
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