Panel: From FLAP to Frontier: Rethinking Europe's footprint for AI#

Dawn Childs (nLighten), Ivo Ivanov (DE-CIX), Amar Khan (Meta), Falk Weinreich (Portus Data Centers), Giancarlo Giacomello (Aruba)

• Why: Where AI compute physically sits — the latency/power/sovereignty trade-off that determines future DC fabric demand. The IXP perspective (DE-CIX) on traffic redistribution is directly relevant to interconnect planning.
• What: Europe's DC landscape is decentralising beyond the FLAP-DASH metros; the panel covers emerging AI hubs, edge growth, and how policy, sovereignty, and latency shape siting decisions (from abstract only).
• How: Panel discussion on siting drivers — power price vs latency, sovereignty requirements, inference-at-edge economics.
• Where applicable: European DC market planning; directional rather than quantitative.