Data Centre & Semiconductor Facility Convergence
Shared engineering playbooks for the AI revolution.
AI is forcing facility convergence
The once-separate worlds of semiconductor manufacturing and data centre infrastructure are converging. As data centres scale to support AI workloads, their facility complexity is beginning to rival that of semiconductor fabs - particularly around cooling, power quality, redundancy, and speed of delivery.
The pace of data centre expansion is constrained by the availability of advanced chips, while sustained growth in data centre investment underpins long-term semiconductor demand. Collaboration has real potential benefit for both industries.
- Mutual impact: data centre expansion drives semiconductor demand, while advances in chip manufacturing reshape data centre efficiency
- Shared constraints: both sectors face the same pressure points - power, water, labour, and supply chains
- Expertise exchange: from direct-to-chip cooling and ultra-high redundancy to rapid build-outs, electrical distribution, and advanced water treatment
The problems data centres are hitting now are the problems semiconductor facilities have been solving for years.
Who attends
Engineers from every facility discipline, and the manufacturers they serve.
Day 0 Session
Where the two industries meet before the technical program.
Data Center & Semiconductor Industry Convergence
AI rack densities now demand direct-to-chip cooling, closed-loop water and ZLD - the exact problems semiconductor facilities have been solving for years. The engineering crossover is direct and immediately applicable.
This invite-only session maps the crossover both ways: data centers inheriting fab-grade water and commissioning discipline, semiconductors borrowing the modular, software-forward DC playbook. Thought leaders from both industries examine the specific opportunities where collaboration accelerates growth.
Data Centre Agenda
Convergence in practice, not theory - cooling, water, energy, and reliability sessions selected by the independent Technical Advisory Committee, spanning hyperscale and fab experience.
Testimonials
Why UltraFacility
Two industries, one agenda.
- Curated by the people who run the fabs. Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung Austin Semiconductor and Micron shape the agenda around real facility challenges.
- 50+ non-commercial presentations, selected from 100+ abstracts by an independent committee. Data, not sales pitches.
- Not a separate track. Data centre and semiconductor engineers share the same agenda, confronting the same problems from different directions.
- Learn from decades of precision. The one forum where data centre operators tap semiconductor experience in power quality, water treatment, contamination control, and high-redundancy operations.
Be in the room where two industries converge
UltraFacility 2026 expands data centre content across the whole conference - curated discussions on 16 September and core technical sessions on 17-18 September.
UltraFacility 2026 · 16-18 September · Phoenix, Arizona