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Andy Brocks

Andy Brocks

Industry Principal Architect for the Insurance Industry at Amazon Web Services (AWS), with 25+ years of IT and cloud leadership experience focused on financial services transformation.

Jun 3, 2026

The Influencers: Digital Transformation

The Influencers: Digital Transformation

Why data centers are the next big risk battleground with Andi Brocks, Amazon Web Services

Jun 3 · 20m

Tom Hughes
Tom HughesHOST
7:38
So which of these do we need to address? place the most emphasis on right now?
Andi Brocks
Andi BrocksGUEST
7:42
That's a great question, Tom.
Andi Brocks
Andi BrocksGUEST
7:44
And I think the lifecycle lens is exactly the right way to think about this.
Andi Brocks
Andi BrocksGUEST
7:47
In the design and planning phase, the most underestimated risk right now is power availability.
Andi Brocks
Andi BrocksGUEST
7:52
It's overtaken land cost and connectivity as the number one constraint on site selection.
Andi Brocks
Andi BrocksGUEST
7:57
You're seeing facilities being sited based on proximity to energy generation near nuclear plants, near large scale renewables, because grid capacity simply can't keep up with demand.
Andi Brocks
Andi BrocksGUEST
8:07
If you get the power strategy wrong at the design stage, you've got a stranded asset and you really will be limited on how you can grow the compute within the data center.
Karishma ParohaHOST
10:09
How do you think about the trade-offs between growth, cost, resilience, and sustainability? And what do you see as the biggest misconceptions people have about the footprint and the solutions?

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