Powering the AI Edge: Scaling Infrastructure in Rural Hubs and Megacities

Featured Speakers:

• Joe Boccuzzi, Principal 5G/6G End-to-End Systems, NVIDIA

• Christyn Fobbs, Director of Energy for Deal Advisory, KPMG

• Juliana Garaizar, Partner, EnergyBackers

• Roberto Wagner, Director of Subsurface, XGS Energy

• Sharita Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer, EcoPower Source Inc.

Summary

The AI race is moving beyond data centers into telecommunications infrastructure via 5G, 6G, and digital networks that link rural hubs and megacities. Yet AI scales only as far as energy infrastructure allow.

• How AI infrastructure is collapsing the boundaries between hyperscale compute, telecommunications networks, and cloud architecture.

• How AI power demand, geothermal included, and resiliency pressures are forcing a rethink of grid architecture, reliability, and low-carbon power deployment.

• How land availability, latency, and the digital divide are driving AI infrastructure expansion beyond megacities and into rural hubs.

• How AI is accelerating the expansion of 5G, 6G, edge compute, and distributed digital networks operating alongside hyperscale data centers to form the next AI infrastructure layer.

• A forward look at what telecommunications networks and data centers could deliver by 2035 as digital infrastructure, edge compute, and low-carbon power systems converge.

• And more.

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