Things To Keep In Mind When Building A Data Center In 2023
DataCenter Knowledge, April 18th, 2023
The nature of the data center is changing, so the way you build them will also have to change. Here are the top considerations.
Building a data center in 2023 is very different from building one 10 years ago - or even five years ago. How they're used and the workloads deployed within them are evolving rapidly, and it's not enough to just build for what you need; you also have to anticipate what you're going to need in the future, which isn't always easy.
Data centers are feeling the pinch on many fronts; for some time, workloads were moving to the cloud and companies were looking to dispose of their data centers entirely. Then reality intruded, and now workloads are returning to on-prem data centers. Of course, there's also the power concern, which is become all-encompassing as concerns about data center power consumption have risen to the forefront.