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Neil Barua

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, PTC Inc.

Search every verified Neil Barua interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Neil Barua, President, CEO, and Director of PTC, moderated a panel discussion at PTC'DC 2026 titled "Scaling Power, Land, and Infrastructure for the AI Economy." During the session, he discussed the industry's shift from AI training to inference, highlighting the growing demand for power, land, and infrastructure. Barua noted that Bain predicts global IT capacity could reach 240 to 260 gigawatts by 2031, with over 120 gigawatts projected to be dedicated to inference, surpassing training needs. He also emphasized the importance of modular data center design, retrofitting existing facilities, and optimizing workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and LPUs to address supply chain constraints and evolving AI workloads. Barua also spoke about the rapid pace of innovation in both IT and physical infrastructure, including data center construction and cooling systems. He mentioned that the industry is building data centers at unprecedented speed and scale, with a spectrum ranging from large facilities to smaller edge deployments. He stressed the need for community partnerships and industrializing retrofits to bring existing capacity up to modern density standards, while acknowledging the challenges of scaling supply and adapting to the demands of autonomous agents and disaggregated inference.

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