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This conversation with Satwinder Samra offers a thought-provoking exploration of architecture’s evolving role in society.

This could present an opportunity for manufacturers or suppliers to develop a new suite of products, especially given land cost and pressures.We know this is happening in the US right now, where a major manufacturer is developing new products for a specific DC owner..

Recent news on the release of open-source DeepSeek and its impact on the share price of Nvidia suggests that there may be some striation in the market..Some AI models, though not in the leading peloton, are close behind and more cost-effective.These applications may place lower demands on processing and cooling and hold a lower facility price point.. Everyone in the room agreed that standing still is not an option..

Some believe that we’re reaching the edges of technological development in cooling, certainly from current supply chains.There are other cooling technologies (e.g.

some developed for the defunct space shuttle programme), but these are currently 100x the cost.

This rise in density is driving DCs to be all about the utilities, with processing space representing a very small percentage of each development.. With both a rapidly evolving technological marketplace and long project lead times, the same dilemma between customers and infrastructure builders about the timings of decision making is amplified..Established formats such as BCF already allow for rich data sharing (although they are not always used to achieve this).

The task that lies ahead – and the project that will fundamentally reshape the landscape – is to define shared underlying rules that will allow the existing parts to connect, and facilitate the creation of new applications to plug the gaps and create onward connections.. Impact on key planning roles.A digitised planning process will not replace humans with computers.

Creating standardised data or the means of standardising existing data across the planning process will enable us to automate those elements which are machine-readable (eg to assess whether standard information supplied by the architect/designer is complete and compliant), and then transparent decision-making by planners.(And by extension – this can encompass building control, health and safety and other types of compliance checking.).