Build More AI Data Centers, or Use Them Better? | Boris Scholl

Boris Scholl (VP & Architect, Cloud & AI Engineering, Microsoft) answers three questions from Kandan Kathirvel (Founder & CEO, MantisGrid AI) on the "Future of AI Infrastructure" panel at the MantisGrid AI Hackathon & Summit 2026. More AI data centers? The demand is there, but we also need to get more out of the GPUs, network, and storage we already have. How MantisGrid AI helps shared customers: data sovereignty and business continuity are moving critical workloads back on-prem, onto mixed systems that aren't all one control plane or all Kubernetes. Five years from now: ubiquitous compute, ambient intelligence, and agents built around intent and outcomes instead of replacing if-then-else blocks.