The trends for 2026

Increasing performance requirements—driven by AI, cloud computing, and digitalization—are colliding with stricter regulatory requirements and growing expectations for sustainability and efficiency in data centers.

From our perspective, these topics will set the tone this year:
➡️ Energy & sustainability: Efficiency, renewable energies, waste heat utilization, and transparent key figures are becoming the norm.
➡️ New cooling concepts: Liquid and hybrid solutions are gaining importance in order to manage increasing power densities.
➡️ Regulation & compliance: NIS2, RKE, EU taxonomy, etc. must be taken into account during the planning stage.
➡️ Security: Physical security is part of cybersecurity.
➡️ Scalability & modularity: Flexibly expandable data centers ensure future viability.

👉 For us, one thing is clear: Successful data center operation is only possible if technology, operation, security, and regulations are considered and brought together from the very beginning.