In this episode of The Control Plane sponsored by AMI, recorded at the OCP EMEA Summit in Barcelona, host Allyson Klein sits down with Zane Ball, Chief Technical Officer of the Open Compute Project Foundation, and Colin Brix, Vice President of Marketing at AMI, for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of open hardware, the rising importance of firmware across AI infrastructure, and the emerging chip-to-grid era reshaping how the industry designs data centers.