Data Centre Transformation Conference 2026

The DCA's annual data centre conference at IET Birmingham: Austin Court on Cambridge Street, 10:00 to 17:00. The agenda is the physical infrastructure behind the AI buildout: power availability and constraints, cooling, and what it takes to transform and operate facilities under the current load growth. It is aimed squarely at people who own or operate data centres rather than at a general tech audience, and the DCA pulls operators, suppliers and engineers from across the UK industry. Free to attend, and currently showing as sold out. Why go: power and cooling are now the binding constraint on UK AI capacity, and this is the room where the operators discuss it. Best for infrastructure engineers, facilities leads and anyone whose compute plans depend on somewhere to put it.