BCG-style case interview
Data Center Power Bottleneck
NovaGrid has more customer demand than power capacity. Decide how to allocate scarce MW and whether to expand.
- Client
- NovaGrid
- Case type
- Capacity Strategy / Infrastructure
- Framework
- Constraint Optimization
- Firm style
- BCG-style
- Duration
- 30 minutes
Case prompt
NovaGrid operates data centers for compute-intensive workloads. Demand has surged, but power capacity in its largest region is constrained. How should it allocate scarce capacity across customers, and should it invest in expansion?