Tomorrow's Datacenter Won't Be Like Yesterday's - Here's Why
The Next Platform, Thursday, December 18th, 2025
The way that organizations plan, design and run a datacenter was already under pressure. AI has turned that pressure into a once-in-generation stress test, one that is inspiring a top-to-bottom rethink of what the datacenter does, how it does it, and where.
'What we're seeing now is seismic,' says Dave Strong, director of advisory and professional services for UKIMEA at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 'This is the biggest change we have ever seen, holistically, in datacenters.'
For years, organizations have treated the management of a datacenter as an asset to sweat. While an efficient, secure, performant datacenter estate was fundamental to the business, most were running relatively predictable workloads. Now, introduce dynamic and demanding AI workloads into the mix. AI-driven innovation in the business tests whether the datacenter infrastructure can deliver.
HPE's answer to that question is based on three things: AI readiness, connectivity, and energy. To support those three pillars, it has developed solutions that transform the datacenter for AI.