AFCOM, a membership association for data center professionals, and Data Center World, a global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals, recently announced the results of the eighth annual State of the Data Center industry report. The report, which has been a fixture at the annual Data Center World industry conference, continues to capture the relentless pace of change in the data center industry.
The research finds that artificial intelligence (AI) is a significant driver in how the industry will be building facilities moving forward. Large hyperscale cloud providers are increasingly accommodating new AI requirements and the need for more computing power. Rapid growth makes finding space and power for smaller markets challenging. As AI requirements grow, there has been a significant surge in demand, with a mounting focus on capacity to meet higher-density data center requirements.