Data centres are key infrastructure building blocks in an age of increasing digitalisation and artificial intelligence.
Kathy Gibson was at Vertiv Week in Zagreb to learn more about trends in this vital part of the IT ecosystem.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history – bigger than the railroads or the Industrial Revolution.
“People assume AI is a bubble, but it is showing no signs of slowing,” says Rod Evans, vice-president: AI, cloud and infrastructure at Nvidia. “The take-up of agentic AI has been extraordinary, and something fundamental is happening.”
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are driving massive growth in data centre builds.
Gautham Gnganajothi, senior vice-president and global head of best practice analytics at Frost and Sullivan, says we are seeing developments in colocation, hyperscaler and enterprise data centres.
“The data centre market is a $500-billion playing field today, growing at 12% CAGR,” he says, adding it is expected to reach as much as $1,5-trillion by 2035.
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With data centres experiencing massive growth around the globe, the industry needs to do a better job of telling people the benefits they offer humanity at large.
Worldwide, uncertainty about possible risks posed by artificial intelligence is playing our in a massive backlash against data centre builds.
While fear about AI taking people’s jobs is part of the concern, narratives around data centres using up available power and water resources are also feeding into prevailing fears.
But these fears are largely groundless, according to a panel discussion at the European Data Centre Associations Summit.
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The world is in the middle of an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, driven in large part by a multi-billion dollar data centre build-out. But the massive development taking place in the developed world threatens to leave emerging market economies with a deeper digital divide than ever.
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