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Keynote: Rolls-Royce PS on Power Challenges in the AI Era

Datacentremagazine · · 631 words · By Saffron Humphreys

The article reports on a keynote speech by Vittorio Pierangeli of Rolls-Royce Power Systems regarding the energy challenges facing AI-driven data centers. It discusses grid connection bottlenecks, the impact of geopolitical events on energy security, and the increasing shift toward onsite power generation to maintain high uptime standards.

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“Opening the first day of Data Centre LIVE: The London Summit, Vittorio Pierangeli, the SVP Rolls-Royce Power Systems, explored this idea during his keynote speech.”
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Two independent sources (Data Centre Magazine and AI Magazine) confirm that Vittorio Pierangeli of Rolls-Royce Power Systems gave a keynote speech on the first day of Data Centre LIVE: The London Summit.
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web search NEUTRAL — rolls-roycemotorcars.com. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a British luxury automobile maker that has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG since 2003 – as the exclusive manufacturer of Rol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars
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web search NEUTRAL — Data Centre LIVE has arrived at Exhibition White City and the first keynote, from Vittorio Pierangeli, has now kicked off on The Enterprise Theatre stage. Data Centre LIVE's first in-person event is o…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/data-centre-live-day-one…
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web search NEUTRAL — Vittorio Pierangeli Rolls-Royce Power Systems. Keynote.Engage with an active audience through branded opportunities, workshops, speaker opportunities and lead the conversation on the future of data ce…
https://aimagazine.com/events/tech-and-ai-live/data-centre-l…
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“The typical construction timeframe for data centres is 18 to 24 months”
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The provided evidence includes general construction timeframes for industrial buildings and unrelated Wikipedia entries (e.g., Austin 18/24 car), but no source confirms the specific 18-24 month timeframe for data centers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Austin 18-24 (or 18-24 hp) is a large 5-litre luxury motor-car that was produced by the British manufacturer Austin. Despite the name, its successive engines rated around 30 horsepower for tax pur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_18/24
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The fineness of a precious metal object (coin, bar, jewelry, etc.) represents the weight of fine metal therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — After their defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the French Army of the North, under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte retreated in disarray back towards France. As agreed by the two Seve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_campaign:_Waterloo_to…
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“We are seeing the lead times to get grid connection in several jurisdictions globally increasing to five to seven years.”
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While sources mention grid connection delays in the Netherlands and the UK, none of the provided evidence specifies a global increase to 'five to seven years'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The grid connection review (estudos de inversão de fluxo) is a procedure conducted by Brazilian power distributors to evaluate the ability of the grid to receive excess electricity, ensuring the syste…
https://pvseoen.snec.org.cn/article/brazil-s-aneel-eases-gri…
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web search NEUTRAL — The long lead time in a queue reduces the viability of renewable energy projects and deter investments. The Netherlands has 3.54 GW of additional renewable capacity in queues waiting for grid connecti…
https://www.abnamro.com/research/en/our-research/esg-economi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Grid connections measured in years rather than decades have become a defining advantage. The Gulf: energy-backed ambition.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/faster-grid-connections-could…
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“In many regions, there is no availability of grid power until 2031, 2032.”
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The evidence mentions a tariff framework until 2032 in Tamil Nadu and general Wikipedia entries for the year 2031, but does not confirm that grid power is unavailable until 2031/2032 in many regions.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2031 (MMXXXI) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2031st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 31st year of the 3rd millennium and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2031
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be the 11th edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's soccer championship contested by the national teams that repres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2031_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Federal Horticultural Show 2031 (German: Bundesgartenschau 2031, BUGA 2031) will take place in Wuppertal, Germany, in 2031, making it the first garden show in the North Rhine-Westphalian city. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesgartenschau_2031
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“According to the BBC, 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas passes through the Strait of Hormuz.”
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Five independent news organizations (CNBC, BBC, Deutsche Welle, EuroNews, and Al Jazeera) all confirm that approximately 20% (or one-fifth) of the world's oil and LNG passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Iran war, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has led to what the International Energy Agency has characterized as the "largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_2026_Ir…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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“expectations for availability sit at 99.995% for Tier IV classification, which is the highest standard for data centre resilience and fault tolerance, set by the Uptime Institute.”
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The evidence confirms the existence of the Uptime Institute Tier classification system and mentions Tier III availability (99.982%), but none of the provided sources explicitly state that Tier IV requires 99.995% availability.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Switch, Inc. is an American company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that develops and operates the SUPERNAP data center facilities and provides colocation, telecommunications, cloud services, and content …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(company)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Otto Toto Sugiri (born 23 September 1953) is an Indonesian billionaire businessman. He is the CEO of Data Center Indonesia (DCI), a company that provides data center services and solutions in Indonesi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Toto_Sugiri
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Data center tiers are defined levels of resiliency and redundancy for IT facility infrastructure. They are widely used in the data center, ISP and cloud computing industries as a framework for designi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center_tiers
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“China’s hyperscalers, including Tencent and Alibaba, continue to expand aggressively, with growth sitting at around 15%.”
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The web search results provided are completely irrelevant, discussing the Chinese language and restaurants in Los Angeles, providing no data on hyperscaler growth rates.
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web search NEUTRAL — Best Chinese in Los Angeles, CA - Last Updated May 2026 - Golden Tree Restaurant, Oncemore Chinese Cuisine, Yang Chow, Full Moon House, Sichuan Impression, Sea Dragon Chinese Restaurant, Din Tai Fung,…
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 8, 2024 · Chinese alphabet explained: Chinese symbols, key characters, letters, and pinyin rules. Interactive tables help translate the Chinese alphabet to English quickly.
https://promova.com/alphabet/chinese-alphabet
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web search NEUTRAL — All varieties of Chinese are tonal at least to some degree, and are largely analytic. The Chinese language is transcribed via a writing system consisting of logographic characters, historically in the…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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“APAC has, for the first time, overtaken Europe as a larger market after a slowdown in European projects across 2025 and 2026.”
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While one source mentions APAC data center demand doubling, there is no evidence provided that APAC has overtaken Europe as a larger market specifically due to a slowdown in European projects in 2025 and 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ten APAC markets were surveyed for the London-based agency’s latest data centre report, produced in collaboration with information service provider DC Byte. Across those markets, total live capacity s…
https://www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/research-policy/knigh…
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web search NEUTRAL — As of April 14, 2026, there were a reported 4,184 data centers in the United States, the most of any country worldwide.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228433/data-centers-wor…
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web search NEUTRAL — Algeria and Oman have entered into a partnership to establish new data centre infrastructure, signaling growing regional collaboration around cloud capacity, digital sovereignty, and critical computin…
https://meatechwatch.com/2026/05/11/algeria-and-oman-partner…
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