Hyperscale Datacenter Capacity Set To Triple Because Of AI Demand
The Register, Wednesday, October 18,2023
Total capacity of hyperscale datacenters is set to grow almost threefold over the next six years on the back of AI demand, substantially increasing the amount of power required by those facilities.
With the generative AI hype cycle in perpetual motion, datacenter operators are planning ahead to anticipate the need for higher density, higher performance infrastructure to meet the processing requirements.
A new report from analyst IDC, for example, forecasts that enterprises worldwide are set to blow nearly $16 billion on generative AI in 2023. This spending, which includes software as well as related infrastructure hardware and IT/business services, is estimated to reach $143 billion in 2027.