GIGATONS and Schneider Electric have announced a strategic global partnership to accelerate deployment of self-powered AI data centers.
The partnership brings together GIGATONS’ proprietary GIGABLOCK energy platform with Schneider Electric’s solutions to accelerate the deployment of next-generation AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale.
The collaboration represents an attempt to solve two of the greatest challenges facing artificial intelligence: access to power and water.
GIGATONS was created to overcome grid connection delays by developing self-powered AI campuses that integrate solar energy generation, energy storage, water infrastructure and advanced computing into a single, scalable platform.
Its integrated solution – called a GIGACENTER – includes both a microgrid + AI data center + water generation platform and is designed to be delivered within 12 months. The company is advancing a development pipeline approaching 1 gigawatt of AI compute capacity, with flagship projects planned in Abu Dhabi and Australia.
The first phase of development targets approximately 100 MW of AI compute capacity in each market, with expansion planned over the coming years.
Through this partnership, Schneider Electric will collaborate with GIGATONS to support the design and deployment of highly efficient, resilient and scalable AI infrastructure platforms, helping establish a repeatable blueprint for future gigawatt-scale developments globally.
Toddington Harper, Founder & CEO, GIGATONS, said:
“The future of artificial intelligence is not being constrained by chips, but by power. GIGATONS was created to solve that challenge by developing a completely new model for AI infrastructure – one that integrates solar power, water and compute into a single platform that can be deployed rapidly and scaled globally.
“Our partnership with Schneider Electric brings together two organisations committed to rethinking what is possible, creating a new blueprint for delivering AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale.”
Amel Chadli, President, Gulf Cluster, Schneider Electric, said:
“Abu Dhabi is becoming one of the most important places in the world to build the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence, and that progress depends on getting energy right. Through this partnership, Schneider Electric brings its role as an energy technology partner, integrating power, cooling, software and services from grid to chip and chip to chiller, to help GIGATONS design AI campuses that are efficient, resilient and ready to scale.
“The aim is to bring new compute capacity online at pace and power it reliably, and to do so on a more sustainable footing. For the talent and the businesses across the Emirates that will build on this infrastructure, that is a meaningful step forward.”
