AI To Boost Datacenter Capex By 28.5% And Become The Top Server Workload
The Register, Friday, June 28th, 2024
AI is currently the big driver in datacenter investment and will push capital expenditure on the facilities up by nearly 30 percent this year, and is also on track to become the top server workload by deployment within a few years.
The AI boom continues to shape datacenter spending, according to the latest Cloud and Data Center Market Snapshot report from analyst firm Omdia. It found that AI applications represent the fastest growing category when measured in number of servers deployed per year.
Omdia has forecast that AI will overtake most other server workloads - such as databases and analytics - this year in terms of server deployments, and is set to surpass telecoms by 2027. AI is consistently called out as the top investment priority during capex allocation.