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Scalable infrastructure for cloud, hyperscale and AI workloads

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Data centers power the digital economy, from cloud and colocation to high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. As demand accelerates, data center infrastructure must enable greater density and advanced cooling while ensuring reliable power delivery at scale.

AI workloads are reshaping how these digital environments are approached through data center design and engineering. Higher rack densities and new cooling approaches are changing requirements. By integrating mission‑critical systems with power, water and digital platforms, we create resilient, high‑performance campuses built for long‑term reliability and data center operations.

5,000+ MW 

Delivered or in design for hyperscale and AI data centers globally over the past decade

30+ years

Leading mission-critical and data center delivery across cloud, colocation and AI workloads

40+ countries

Global delivery with local execution across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific

Integrated solutions and services for AI and hyperscale data centers

From site selection to commissioning, delivering data center infrastructure designed for scale, performance and sustainability.

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Campus Planning

Campus Planning

Enhancing site selection, due diligence and master planning for power, water and scalability.

Environmental-Permitting

Permitting and Environmental Services

Accelerating approvals while ensuring regulatory compliance and sustainability integration.

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Digital Design and Delivery

Using modular replication and data-driven design optimization alongside digital twins to enable efficient data center design, predictable construction and repeatable delivery at scale.

Water Resources

Water Strategy and Reuse

Implementing cooling water sourcing, treatment, reuse and zero-liquid-discharge approaches.

Power and Energy Infrastructure

Energy and Power Infrastructure

Supporting grid interconnection, substations, on-site generation, microgrids and energy storage to enable resilient onsite data center operations and scalable growth.

Low-Carbon and Carbon-Free Energy

Low-Carbon and Carbon-Free Energy

Delivering renewables, advanced nuclear, hydrogen and carbon-capture-enabled solutions.

High-Density Cooling Solutions

High-Density Cooling Systems

Developing direct‑to‑chip, liquid immersion and advanced thermal strategies to support AI workloads across complex data center systems.

Construction and Commissioning

Construction and Commissioning

Providing Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services and integrated systems testing and transition support to enable predictable delivery and long‑term data center hardware maintenance.

Designing AI-ready data centers

AI workloads demand more power, greater cooling performance and smarter infrastructure. We integrate digital, energy and engineering expertise to deliver scalable, resilient and sustainable AI-driven data centers.

  • Power for Performance

    Power for Performance

    Designing resilient energy strategies that combine grid interconnection, substations, on-site generation and energy storage to support high-density AI computing at scale.

  • Cooling for Density

    Cooling for Density

    Implementing advanced cooling solutions — including direct-to-chip liquid cooling and immersion systems — to efficiently manage extreme heat loads while improving reliability and energy efficiency across modern data center systems.

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    Digital Optimization

    Using digital twins and intelligent modeling to simulate performance, reduce risk and optimize power, cooling and sustainability outcomes across the full data center operations lifecycle. 

The future of data centers explained

Answering the key questions behind AI and next-generation data centers, from power and cooling to sustainability and delivery. Understand what’s driving design decisions and how facilities are built to perform at scale.

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An AI data center is a facility designed to support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. It relies on high-density power, advanced cooling and resilient energy infrastructure.

AI data centers operate at significantly higher rack densities and require advanced cooling systems, enhanced power infrastructure and more flexible layouts than traditional facilities.

AI workloads generate significantly more heat due to dense Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based computing. Liquid and immersion cooling systems remove heat more efficiently, enabling higher performance and improved energy usage, while maintaining reliable operations.

Jacobs designs integrated energy strategies that combine grid interconnection, substations, on-site generation, microgrids and energy storage to support reliable and scalable AI operations.

Yes. Data centers can reduce carbon and water use through low-carbon energy sourcing, efficient cooling strategies, water reuse and lifecycle-based sustainability design.

Jacobs supports EPCM, design-build, program management and digital delivery models for data centers globally.

Full lifecycle services for data centers

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  • Delivering Europe’s largest and most sustainable data center

    Powered entirely by renewable energy and using seawater for cooling, SINES Data Campus by Start Campus is putting sustainability at the heart of AI-scale data center design

    Strategically located in Sines, Portugal, at Europe’s westernmost edge, the $9.4 billion (€8.5 billion) campus will connect all the world’s continents through high-speed subsea cables, capitalizing on Portugal’s unique position as the only country with direct submarine cable connections to around 60 countries. 

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    SINES DC by Start Campus

  • Advancing high-performance computing infrastructure in North America

    Delivering EPCM services for Hut 8’s River Bend data center in Louisiana

    The data center is leased under a 15-year, $7.0 billion lease for 245 megawatts of information technology capacity and anchors a larger planned campus that is poised to become one of the largest AI and high-performance computing developments in North America. 

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  • Gigawatt challenge: Infrastructure for the AI era

    Digital twins are essential as AI data centers scale from hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts

    Jacobs Senior Vice President, Advanced Facilities and Market Lead AI Data Centers,  Dana Tilley explores how digital twins can enable owners, operators, developers, utilities and communities to plan gigawatt-scale AI data centers faster — improving grid resilience and balancing power, cooling and site constraints earlier in the process.  

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