Vertiv To Exhibit At ITW Africa 2026

Power and cooling infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads will be among the topics on the agenda at International Telecoms Week (ITW) Africa 2026, where Vertiv will exhibit its data centre infrastructure technologies.

The event, scheduled for 8 September 2026, comes as data centre operators and telecommunications companies across Africa face growing demand for infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly compute-intensive workloads.

Vertiv will use its presence at the event to showcase technologies covering high-density power, liquid cooling, heat rejection and infrastructure management for AI applications. The company will also demonstrate its technologies through virtual and augmented reality experiences at Stand 404.

The growing adoption of AI is putting additional pressure on data centre infrastructure. AI workloads can require significantly greater computing power and generate more heat than many traditional enterprise applications, increasing the demands placed on power distribution and cooling systems.

These challenges are particularly relevant to Africa, where data centre operators are expanding capacity to support cloud services, digital platforms and emerging AI applications while also dealing with constraints around electricity availability, infrastructure costs and efficiency.

Wojtek Piorko, Managing Director for Africa at Vertiv, is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at ITW Africa titled “Designing Efficient and Sustainable Data Centres.” The session will take place on 8 September from 15:50 to 16:30.

The discussion is expected to examine how data centre operators can balance rising computing requirements with the need to improve energy efficiency and sustainability.

At its exhibition stand, Vertiv will demonstrate its infrastructure technologies using the Vertiv XR mobile application and virtual showroom, alongside virtual reality experiences focused on power and thermal management for AI environments.

The company’s participation comes as investment in African data centre capacity continues to expand, driven by cloud adoption, digital services and the emergence of AI workloads. As operators increase computing density, infrastructure design is increasingly becoming a key consideration in determining how quickly new capacity can be deployed and how efficiently it can operate.

For African technology leaders, the shift towards higher-density computing is also raising questions around the availability and cost of electricity, cooling requirements, data centre sustainability and the ability of existing facilities to accommodate AI infrastructure without major upgrades.