Designing and operating AI-ready infrastructure in emerging markets

As AI workloads scale, many of the assumptions that defined traditional data centers no longer hold. Power becomes a constraint. Cooling becomes strategic. Governance moves from policy to daily operation.

In emerging markets such as Colombia, those pressures surface faster. That is where sovereign AI infrastructure must move beyond theory and prove itself in operation.

Ilkari’s Technical Operations Manager, Claudia Liñán, recently spoke with Data Center Dynamics on what it takes to design and operate sovereign AI-ready infrastructure in emerging markets such as Colombia, and why real sovereignty depends on operational control, not just data location.

The rest is based on what she actually said. 

• Data sovereignty