International Data Center Authority (IDCA)
Mehdi
Paryavi
Working across digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence and the global digital economy — and the standards and research that shape them.
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IDCA Global Energy Report (2026)
IDCA's 2026 energy report examines how the shift to gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure turns once-reversible data center decisions into 20-to-40-year commitments. It explores financing bottlenecks, the emerging power-and-water siting constraint, and the growing battle over who controls workload placement across the grid.
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About
Mehdi Paryavi
Mehdi Paryavi is Chairman & CEO of the International Data Center Authority (IDCA), the digital economy think tank behind global standards, research and certification for the data center industry. He is widely credited as an early advocate of ‘application-centric’ infrastructure — designing data center capacity around the workloads it actually needs to serve — and is a frequent voice in the international press on artificial intelligence, energy and digital sovereignty. He lectures globally and represents IDCA at industry summits and government forums worldwide.
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