The 2026 Datacloud Global Congress took place in Cannes, bringing together leaders across data centers, cloud, AI infrastructure, power, cooling, and construction. EPG made its first appearance at the show, presenting its AICore solution for AI data center (AIDC) builds.
EPG’s presence reflects a shift in how AIDCs get built: compute demand is rising, timelines are shrinking, and deployments are more complex. Customers need more than point products — they need infrastructure that deploys fast, runs reliably, and scales. EPG AICore delivers this through prefabricated design, factory-tested modules, and modular delivery.
EPG AICore Debuts in Cannes, Addressing AI Data Center Delivery Challenges
At the EPG booth, AICore was a focal point of conversation. The questions customers face are familiar: how to go live faster, support high-density compute reliably, and reduce on-site uncertainty. EPG AICore answers this systematically. Rather than a single product, it’s a modular infrastructure platform spanning IT space, power, cooling, structure, piping, fire protection, and ELV systems — giving customers a more complete compute infrastructure foundation.
To address the complexity of multi-system coordination, the many on-site construction interfaces, and long commissioning cycles in AI data center projects, EPG AICore moves more engineering work into the factory. Modules are pre-assembled, pre-wired, and tested before shipment, then installed and commissioned quickly on-site. This reduces field construction work and improves schedule control, quality, and risk management throughout the build.
EPG AICore supports builds of 7.5MW, 15MW, and larger, configurable to customer capacity plans, site conditions, and build phases. Its AI IT POD integrates IT and network cabinets, busbars, piping, network cabling, cooling, fire protection, and ELV systems, supporting high-density compute in large AIDCs as well as regional compute nodes, small data centers, and edge computing sites.
Responding to Europe’s AI Infrastructure Needs with Modular Solutions
France is a key market in Europe’s digital infrastructure landscape, with a mature base of traditional data centers, colocation, cloud services, and telecom infrastructure. As AI enterprises grow and demand for hyperscale and AI data centers rises, France and the broader European market are entering a new phase of compute infrastructure construction.
This shift is producing more tiered construction patterns. Paris and other core regions are seeing demand for larger, higher-density data centers, while surrounding cities are driving new growth in small data centers, edge computing, and regional compute nodes. For customers, deploying AI infrastructure within the constraints of power, cooling, site conditions, and go-live timelines has become a key challenge in project execution.
EPG AICore meets this with a flexible, modular architecture. For large AIDC projects, it coordinates IT space, power, and cooling for high-density compute deployment. For small and mid-sized data centers and edge sites, the solution can be configured around site conditions and expansion plans, helping customers balance upfront investment with future scalability.
On the low-carbon and sustainability fronts, EPG AICore starts with a low-water cooling architecture, flexibly combining air cooling, liquid cooling, and free cooling based on local climate, water availability, and load density. This meets the cooling demands of high-density AI workloads while reducing water dependency and improving system resilience across different regional conditions.
During the congress, EPG also connected with customers around its AI IT POD, power modules, and cooling modules, spanning IT space, power distribution, cooling, and on-site deployment. These conversations further demonstrated EPG’s system integration capabilities and engineering delivery experience in modular data centers.
Cannes marks the starting point for EPG to deepen its ties with France and Europe’s digital infrastructure ecosystem, extending AICore’s modular, prefabricated, and system integration capabilities to more global markets. As AI infrastructure construction accelerates, EPG will continue to address customers’ needs around delivery timelines, system stability, resource efficiency, and future scalability, providing a more predictable construction path for more data center projects.