THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR INDUSTRY IS DAUNTING , YES , BUT ENORMOUS – AND WE ARE GOING TO SEE MORE CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND CONSTRUCTION THAN EVER BEFORE .
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T industry is 25 years old this year , marking an incredible quarter century where the internet , smartphones , the cloud and High- Performance Compute has transformed society . I think in another 25 years we will look back and see 2024 as a real turning point . We are about to enter the most strategically important year in the history of our extraordinary industry ; everything that ’ s happened to this point , is just prologue .
Prediction # 1 : We will see unprecedented demand for capacity – the AI genie is very much out of the bottle
CHARTING THE COURSE : DATA CENTRES IN 2024 AND THE UNPRECEDENTED TRANSFORMATIONS AHEAD
The new year coincides with ushering in a new era for the modern data centre industry . Josh Joshi , Executive Chairman , AtlasEdge , tells us that we should brace for AI-driven demands , strategic partnerships and regulatory entanglements which will inevitably redefine our digital landscape .
Having spent the last decade meeting massive and ever-growing demand for cloud deployments , this prediction might initially seem unrealistic . However , we are dealing with something very different to the legacy cloud deployments . These primarily involved moving existing workloads from one location to another and were fundamentally about making data collection and storage more efficient ( both energy and compute ), more user friendly and more secure .
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THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR INDUSTRY IS DAUNTING , YES , BUT ENORMOUS – AND WE ARE GOING TO SEE MORE CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND CONSTRUCTION THAN EVER BEFORE .
AI is totally different . Fuelled by accelerated compute and neural networks , it will create a whole new set of workloads which don ’ t exist anywhere today . It ’ s a technological leap on par
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