CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Giordano Albertazzi

Chief Executive Officer, Vertiv Holdings

Search every verified Giordano Albertazzi interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv Holdings, has recently discussed the company's role in supporting AI infrastructure expansion. In September 2026 appearances, he stated that the question of whether AI adoption is real has been settled, with the current focus being on the speed and depth of infrastructure buildout. He identified access to power, permitting, and construction speed as key pacing items for the industry, and advocated for industrializing data center deployment through modularization. Albertazzi also addressed public concerns about AI's environmental impact, saying the industry has answers regarding power and water efficiency that need to be communicated more clearly to the public. In July 2026, Albertazzi participated in Vertiv's second-quarter earnings call, during which the company raised its full-year guidance, projecting net sales of $14 billion and adjusted diluted EPS of $6.70. He highlighted a collaboration with Nvidia and Foxconn's Vision Bay AI for a data center in Taiwan featuring Nvidia GB300 systems, as well as work on an AI data center adopting 800 VDC architectures. In an interview with Barron's, he described long-term growth expectations of 20-22% over five years and emphasized the industry's focus on energy efficiency, framing the goal as maximizing "tokens per second per megawatt." He also said that overbuilding is not a current concern, with the greater challenge being increasing the speed of construction.

Recent appearances

Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think overbuilding is not a problem these days. If anything, the problem is the opposite. How can we make sure that the speed of building increases? But it all starts with a very clear business plan, and the majority of our customers have a very strong understanding of what they want to be in the future. So very strategically sound, and when you have a clear strategy, then you know what role you have to play in the”

“The biggest challenge, the biggest opportunity is clearly the demand behind and the need for infrastructure that characterizes not just the US but the entire world. The strong demand for capacity for compute capacity, certainly, but also the cloud compute capacity that continues to be very, very strong. With that in mind, what are the pacing items? Access to power, permitting, but also simply speeding up and enabling”

“The the the most talked about and of course broadly known pacing item is access to power. Access to power seemed to be like creating a ceiling that the industry would not ever be able to to to to to break but in fact we see that a lot of power behind the meter is being developed. So again, what seemed to be a constraint has become just a pacing item.”

“We see long-term growth. We see an average let's say growth in the in the 5 years out between 20 and 22%. Uh and we see a lot of uh uh margin and profit coming uh alongside that. And oh, by the way, we we're going faster than that as we speak.”

“More and more energy efficiency. So, that every electron, that hard-fought electron in terms of access to power, can be converted into tokens. So, now that the the real mantra in the in the industry is, you know, tokens per second per megawatt.”

“We see long-term growth. We see an average let's say growth in the in the 5 years out between 20 and 22%. Uh and we see a lot of uh uh margin and profit coming uh alongside that. And oh, by the way, we're going faster than that as we speak.”

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →