ALPS Appoints Brian Turnbow to Lead Next-Generation AI Data Center Development
ALPS has appointed Brian Turnbow as its new Technical Director for AI. The company is focusing on building sustainable data center infrastructure by leveraging renewable energy and existing resources.
Italian company ALPS has appointed Brian Turnbow to lead its technical development in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). The company aims to create data centers that utilize renewable energy and repurpose existing industrial infrastructure.
Turnbow will be responsible for driving ALPS's strategy in AI and HPC, encompassing the evaluation of architectures and sites, and collaboration with technological and industrial partners. Italy is identified as a strategic market where the company plans to leverage local expertise and existing resources.
The growing energy demands of data centers present a significant challenge to grid capacity. ALPS addresses this by locating data centers where energy availability already exists and integrating renewable energy sources. The company also focuses on reusing brownfield industrial sites and their associated infrastructure.
Turnbow brings over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and digital infrastructure sectors. He emphasizes that AI infrastructure design must originate from the supported workloads and client requirements to create flexible, scalable, and sustainable computing capacity.