Build data centres that actually match AI workloads
The article outlines how IC3 Super West has been engineered with AI as a first-class design constraint, not an afterthought retrofitted onto legacy halls.
High-density, liquid-cooled design for GPU-heavy racks
- The facility is architected to support extreme rack densities required by modern GPU clusters, with liquid cooling to keep thermal envelopes under control.
- Power and cooling topologies are tuned to avoid the usual trade-off where dense AI racks force operators to derate capacity or accept higher failure risk.
Positioning Australia in the regional AI race
- For Australia, IC3 Super West is framed as a strategic asset, enabling local AI training and inference instead of exporting demand offshore.
- That has implications for latency-sensitive applications, data sovereignty and national resilience.
Takeaways for infra and cloud strategy
This build is part of a broader pattern: next-generation AI data centres look less like generic colocation and more like specialised industrial plants. CIOs and cloud buyers should be probing whether their current providers actually offer AI-appropriate power, cooling and interconnects, or just traditional enterprise facilities with an AI marketing layer.