On April 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. took place the official opening of the significant event Data Center World 2025 (having as theme ‘Powering the Industry’s Future’), the opening speech being given by the AFCOM Data Center World Program Chair, Bill Kleyman, who brought to the attendees’ attention the unprecedented challenges (having an effect on people at every level and in every area) faced by the data center industry, the major obstacle affecting the potential for new entrants in the data center industry being related to a sustainable and resilient infrastructure (the power supply of a data center) that can easily adapt and grow to provide with what is suited a properly AI-driven future (Walker, 2025). It is worth remembering that a year ago, in a Guide to Data Center Construction, one of the key areas of data center innovation identified by Data Center Knowledge Editors (2024) were AI Factories (together with SMRs and Nuclear-Powered Data Centers, Turbocharged Fiber-Optic Networks, and Quantum Data Centers), every aspect of data center management being revolutionized by AI.

On May 7, 2025, at the Face Convention Center, Bucharest, took place the Data Center Forum (https://datacenter-forum.ro/?), well-known as the top reference Event in the Data Center field in Romania. In this remarkable context, local and international experts addressed both the AI Factory issue and operational efficiency, as well as important regulatory aspects about sustainability and the future of data centers in our region.

Allow us to make reference to the last issue of the Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine, where our distinguished colleague Prof. Eng. Ph.D. Victor GREU (a traditional participant at the Data Center Forum) stated among other aspects as follows: ‘Beyond ICT mentioned role in IS/KBS, we observe the indirect ways this role is completed by lending models of proven optimization, efficacy and efficiency, from ICT advanced applications and development to other areas of human activity, including even humankind behaviour and thinking, where AI could be the most promising example, as its advances depend more and more on studying and surpassing HI limits, opening this way what we consider that will be the crucial engine of World sustainable progress: the safe balance of AI and HI’ (https://crd-aida.ro/RePEc/rdc/v16i1/2.pdf).