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DCN Milan, Italy, May 2026

We were at DCN in Milan, Italy 27 May 2026.

DCN Milan 2026

FläktGroup attended DCN Milan 2026, the 5th anniversary edition of Italy’s leading data centre event, which brought together more than 3,200 senior industry leaders, along with 200+ speakers and 200+ sponsors and partners from across Europe.

Across 60+ Conference and Tech Stage sessions, industry experts explored strategies shaping the future of AI-ready infrastructure, sustainable energy, hyperscale development, connectivity, cooling, and next-generation digital capacity.

The event provided a valuable platform to engage with key stakeholders, exchange knowledge, and gain deeper insights into the challenges and opportunities defining the evolution of data centre infrastructure and operations.

Further details about our participation were shared in the lead-up to the event.

You can learn more about DCN Milan 2026 on the official website:

DCN Milan 2026

Jonas Caino delivered a presentation on “The Thermal Capacity Problem.”

At Tech Stage 2, Jonas Caino, Global Business Development Director at FläktGroup, delivered a presentation titled “The thermal capacity problem: Why cooling will determine how much compute AI infrastructure data centers can deploy.” The session highlighted the increasingly strategic role of cooling in enabling high-density AI infrastructure, emphasising its direct impact on how much compute capacity data centres can realistically scale.

Rethinking Data Centres in the Age of AI: Insights from DCN Milan

At DCN event in Milan, industry experts gathered to discuss how the rapid rise of AI is reshaping infrastructure demands. Mohamed Ashok from FläktGroup shares key insights from the event, from evolving power and cooling requirements to the growing importance of resilient, end-to-end partnerships in building the data centres of the future.

Q&A with Mohamed Ashok

What were the biggest themes or trends discussed this year?

The main theme of the event was the AI Revolution and how Data Centres need to gear up to meet the expected operational and thermal demands that come with adoption of AI workloads. Our very own Jonas Caino made an insightful presentation on Heat as Strategy rather than just a problem that needs solving. There were multiple discussions around power availability and readiness and permitting challenges that arise while trying to get approval to build AI ready data centres. Through it all, overall build resiliency and sustainability were also relevant themes discussed across different panels and presentations during the event.

Did you have any meaningful conversations or partnerships emerge?

Most definitely. Data Centres are one of the fastest growing and evolving industries, and customers are looking for life-cycle partnerships that can keep pace with these evolving market requirements and help deliver end to end solutions for them in a timely and consistent manner. FlaktGroup’ s expertise in air and liquid cooling products, manufacturing footprint and capacity, and project delivery excellence were key points of interest for our potential clients at the event.

What are people struggling with the most operationally?

I believe it’s the speed at which chip technology is evolving and the struggle to keep pace with the specific power and cooling requirements, which translates to having to future proof data centres to accommodate these changes, which is physically very challenging. As an example. If a site has been designed and built for 20MW power and respective cooling requirements, by the time the new chips are out, the same facility must have around 50MW of power and cooling requirements within the same building set up.

Any other key takeaways?

The rate at which industry is evolving is pushing everyone in the DC ecosystem to really challenge themselves, innovate and look beyond their current sphere of expertise. As FlaktGroup, we have had to evolve beyond just a manufacturing company producing cooling products to a solution provider who supports our customers throughout the product and project lifecycle. Events like DCN provide a great platform to discuss our strengths with customers, establish new relationships, and strengthen existing ones.

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