The data center industry will be defined by three critical challenges in 2025: power availability, sustainability, and innovation in design. With AI driving exponential demand for high-performance computing, operators must rethink how they source energy, optimize efficiency, and future-proof infrastructure. As AI fuels explosive demand for high-performance data centers, the question remains: how will we as an industry rise to meet these challenges? At Verne, we’ve been tackling these issues for more than a decade, building the expertise and solutions needed to navigate this evolving landscape. In this blog, I want to share my predictions on the challenges we face, their potential impact, and why I believe the Nordics hold the key to solving them.