While data center supply management has always worked on a bell curve pursuant to supply and demand, never has the industry been met with the conditions we are going through today. In the early 1990s, the longest lead-to-purchase time was 45 weeks for raised floor tiles. Today, the longest lead-to-purchase times are for generators, transformers, switchgear, and raw materials.
With that being said, here are four major concerns affecting the data center industry today.