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Agile Infrastructure for AI: Holistic Data Center Co-Design from Chip to Utility
Tom Garvens, VP of Data Center Technology and Systems at Google, took the stage at Data Center World Power 2026 to reveal how Google tackled explosive AI growth, over 3 quadrillion tokens processed monthly, with a full-stack approach spanning chip to utility. From dynamic grid-support strategies to open ecosystem standards through OCP, this keynote showed what responsible, agile AI infrastructure looks like at scale.


Tom Garvens
Vice President of Data Center Technology and Systems
Google
Tom Garvens is a technology executive with over three decades of leadership in hardware engineering, data center infrastructure, and technology innovation. Known for driving scalable architectural solutions for the world’s most demanding workloads, he currently serves as Vice President of Data Center Technology and Systems at Google. In this role, he leads the engineering of next-generation infrastructure to power hyperscale cloud systems and large-scale machine learning workloads, with a dedicated focus on energy efficiency, electrical/thermal innovation, and sustainability.
