The leading hyperscale data centre company will aim to shape the OCP ecosystem across silicon, systems, cooling and energy.
Selected by the OCP Foundation Board of Directors and Foundation CEO George Tchaparian, Vantage Data Centers will join hyperscale enterprise infrastructure leaders in supporting common standards for AI infrastructure and efficiency through cross-ecosystem collaboration.
Vantage said it will represent the perspective of the global data centre operator and bring real-world facility experience into the foundation’s comprehensive work.
“The evolution of AI infrastructure requires closer alignment between technology innovation and data centre realities, from silicon to systems to infrastructure and facilities and to the grid,” said Tchaparian. “Vantage’s depth of experience operating hyperscale data centre campuses is a uniquely critical addition to the advisory board as OCP advances open and efficient infrastructure standards.”
The OCP Foundation is an international non-profit organisation whose goal is to bring hyperscale innovations to all. It already consists of members like Meta, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia and Nokia, among others, all aiming to advance data centre infrastructure development.
As a leading open hardware and infrastructure community, the OCP is focused on improving efficiency, standards development and continued innovation across the entire data centre ecosystem. Particularly as AI infrastructure demand accelerates, the advisory board has a critical role in shaping priorities and encouraging cross-industry collaboration.
Member companies are selected by the OCP for their support of the organisation, alongside their domain expertise and leadership. Robin Balen, chief product officer at Vantage Data Centers, will be representing the company on the advisory board.
Vantage hopes its appointment will strengthen collaboration between data centre operators, silicon providers, system manufacturers and power and cooling innovators.
“Vantage is proud to contribute the operator perspective to the Open Compute Project at a time when data centre infrastructure is evolving at unprecedented speed,” Balen said. “By supporting open, efficient AI infrastructure and bringing actual facility experience into OCP’s work on power, cooling and grid-integrated data centres, we can help ensure that emerging standards are not only innovative, but deployable at scale in a way that is also highly efficient and sustainable.”
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