Flex to Double Europe Footprint to Meet AI Data Centre Needs
Eager to enhance its data centre power offerings, Flex is powering ahead with a European expansion for its Critical Power Business, Anord Mardix.
The company has recently acquired a new manufacturing site in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, which doubles Flex's power product capacity in Europe from 616,000 to 1,200,000 square feet. This achievement will be necessary for the company to meet rising customer demand for AI-driven power solutions.
Flex has strategically established more than 11 million square feet of regionalised manufacturing capacity in Europe to better serve local demand.
- Expanding data centre critical power product manufacturing capacity with new site: Bielsko-Biała, Poland
- Growth in manufacturing capacity to address rising customer demand
- AI-driven data centre expansion
- Accelerating power expansion to enhance the Flex Anord Mardix EMEA footprint with eight sites in total
“Our expansion in Europe represents a pivotal moment for Flex as we accelerate our global manufacturing capabilities to address data centre power, heat and scale challenges in the AI era,” says Chris Butler, President of Embedded and Critical Power at Flex.
Capitalising on an emerging data centre region
Flex is expanding in Poland as part of its global growth strategy to invest in essential power and data centre technologies and sites to meet growing customer demands.
Poland is fast-becoming a very attractive data centre destination, with traditional FLAP-D feeling the strain of demand with power constraints. It is against this backdrop that Poland is emerging as a strong presence in the European data centre market.
Likewise, the country continues to invest in grid development and is currently undergoing a rapid renewable energy transition to support digital infrastructure, which has attracted a range of data centre investment.
Piotr Kowalski, Managing Director of the Polish Data Centre Association (PLDCA), recently told Data Centre Magazine: “We see Poland as a contender for Tier 2 market status, allowing European data centre capacity expansion outside of the FLAP-D region and serving as a gateway to Central and Eastern Europe.
Read the full PLDCA report from Data Centre Magazine HERE.
Meeting demands with next-generation infrastructure
The new Polish site comes after Flex opened a second facility in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland, adding 120,000 square feet, doubling Anord Mardix's capacity in the country.
Known as D2, the Dundalk facility assembles switchgear products to efficiently meet the rising global demand for reliable data centre power – a need exacerbated by the rise in AI.
Flex also recently opened a new US critical power product manufacturing and assembly facility in Dallas, Texas, while acquiring Crown Technical Systems and JetCool Technologies, the latter of which added liquid cooling products to the Flex data centre portfolio.
Chris adds: “We are committed to delivering next-generation power infrastructure solutions that not only maximise computing performance but also significantly reduce deployment times for our customers.
“This investment allows us to align closely with the demands of rapid data centre expansion worldwide.”
The new Poland site, Bielsko-Biała, is fully operational and is currently employing more than 700 skilled workers. These teams are set to produce an extensive portfolio of grid-to-chip products, which include Low Voltage/Medium Voltage (LV/MV) Switchgear, Power Pods and Busway systems.
This focus from Flex is a direct response to its customers’ increasing requirements for next-generation power infrastructure that enables faster data centre deployment at scale.
Looking ahead, the company is planning to expand the site further to support PowerPods production – something that it has identified as a need for its customers.
Establishing the new site is also an opportunity for Flex’s workforce to be a part of the company’s global growth plan, enabling the company to deliver innovative power solutions from the grid to the chip.
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