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NTT Global Data Centers’ COO Joe Pace told RCR Wireless News that the company was focusing on optimizing its infrastructure to be AI-ready
NTT Global Data Centers is reshaping its strategy to keep pace with the rapid shift toward AI-heavy workloads, COO Joe Pace told RCR Wireless News in the most recent episode of Rack to RAN.
Pace said the company is taking a “multi-pronged approach” rooted in global expansion, AI-ready infrastructure, and long-term sustainability commitments.
“We’re taking a multi-pronged approach to it,” Pace said. “First, we are working on global expansion. We’ve acquired land in seven markets like Frankfurt, Osaka, Phoenix and Milan, and we’re growing our global footprint. And that land alone is over a gigawatt worth of expansion capacity.”
He explained that the company is also focusing heavily on infrastructure optimization: “We’re trying to optimize our infrastructure to be AI-ready. And that comes with starting with a design that is ready for AI and can be adapted flexibly to the needs of our customers.”
A key part of this strategy is engineering collaboration: “We have an awesome engineering team that works very closely with our customers so we can take their particular architected solution and put it in our data halls,” Pace said.
NTT Global Data Centers’ sustainability goals are equally central. “We’ve got a net zero commitment by 2040 and we’re working very hard in both our design teams and our energy procurement teams to bring the most sustainable data center design possible.”
When asked whether the company prioritizes new AI-ready developments or upgrades to existing sites, Pace said NTT Global Data Centers is pursuing both paths. “We’re trying to do both. We try to stay ahead of our clients to where they need to be… That said, it’s always easier to do AI AI-ready greenfield… So we’re doing both here at NTT.”
Power availability remains one of the industry’s most serious bottlenecks. “The first issue is grid capacity and infrastructure. There are regulatory delays, there’s just so many people in line for power today,” the executive said.
Growing server power consumption compounds the problem: “Our clients are now using chips and servers that are consuming so much more power than to begin with.” Efficiency is equally important. “At NTT, we have a saying that I love, the best kilowatt hour is the one we don’t use,” he added.
