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Global Conversations & Regional Perspectives at Datacloud Global Congress, Cannes 2026
For more than 20 years, Datacloud Global Congress, Cannes (DCG Cannes) has been one of the industry's primary events for deal-making, strategic partnerships and high-level collaboration.
It brings together operators, investors, developers and technology providers from around the world, offering a unique opportunity to take the temperature of the global data centre market.
John Fahy, Tate’s Middle East Director, advises: “This is the main event in the calendar for us. It helps us deepen our relationships with customers and partners, and allows us to engage directly with senior decision-makers about future projects and wider market trends.
“I was talking mainly to directors from large EU architectural practices, and these discussions have already led to booking meetings for future job opportunities.”
How can Tate support evolving infrastructure demands?
While Tate has long been recognised for its strong heritage in structural systems, spanning ceilings, containment, and other high-performance infrastructure, conversations at the event reflected a growing regional awareness of our capabilities in power and liquid cooling pre- integrated infrastructure solutions.
This recognition is as a result of Tate’s recent involvement in major multi-national hyperscale projects. These global facilities are will provide the vast amount of computing power that is needed to train and operate next-generation Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models.
Our steel liquid cooling manifolds attracted a great deal of interest, not least because they are made of stainless steel. Across the Middle East, specifications tend to favour stainless steel manifolds over plastic within high-density applications.
Tate's stainless steel manifolds are designed for exceptional long-term performance in these demanding conditions, backed by our renowned quality assurance. Our manifolds are designed to withstand the repeated pressure and temperature fluctuations associated with high-density liquid cooling environments, helping to reduce the risk of structural fatigue and leaks over the lifetime of the system.
Modularisation, flexibility and regional differences
Modularisation was also discussed, although data centre deployment models vary considerably region by region.
In Europe, hyperscale facilities continue to be the main focus of attention, which is driving the interest in modular solutions. However, in the Middle East, developers are building colocation data centres, which means suppliers are typically asked to deliver bespoke infrastructure solutions. The common thread across both markets is the need for speed. Faster deployment reduces programme risk and creates commercial advantage, particularly where infrastructure requirements continue to evolve during the delivery phase.
This reinforces the value of integrated solutions that simplify coordination between infrastructure elements and reduce pressure on already stretched project teams.
Our discussions at DCG Cannes show us that Tate is exceptionally well placed to support the market in this regard, and the strength of our offer was evidenced with a raft of new opportunities to tender.
How the market is shaping
DCG Cannes 2026 reflected a market now moving faster than it was only a year ago.
Many of our conversations were around the pace of change, and how this is being driven by AI workloads.
The US continues to set the pace in terms of speed and scale, while European and Middle Eastern markets adapt their approaches to local customer needs and constraints. Discussions around flexibility and adaptability of white spaces are becoming almost as commonplace as performance.
There is also little doubting the value of face-to-face discussions in a forum such as this, where relationships are vital to help shape opportunities and influence decision-making. For Tate's team, the event strengthened existing partnerships, generated meaningful new connections and provided valuable market intelligence that can be translated into future action.
It also confirmed that awareness of Tate's expertise beyond structural ceilings continues to grow capabilities across structural, power, cooling, and integrated infrastructure continues to grow. Interest in liquid cooling, integrated infrastructure, and solutions such as Konnect liquid cooling, pre-integrated infrastructure, and solutions such as Konnect reflects a market looking for trusted partners that can support increasingly complex environments without compromising on quality, reliability or speed of delivery to deliver increasingly complex environments at scale, balancing performance, reliability, and speed of deployment.