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Designing for AI: How Connectivity Will Rewire Data Centres in 2026

Rahul Puri, CEO of STL explores three design shifts that are redefining data-centre blueprints as AI workloads scale: hall-level connectivity as a first-order discipline, inter-DC networks as a single deterministic fabric, and high-density pre-terminated fibre as a core efficiency lever.

Updated January 12, 2026 / Original January 12, 2026

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By now, it’s clear: as we close 2025, AI is no longer a specialised workload - it has become the organising principle of digital infrastructure. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that global data centre electricity consumption could more than double to nearly 945 TWh by 2030. Industry analyses point to several trillion dollars of cumulative investment required this decade, with AI infrastructure driving a majority of that spend.

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