AI continues to impact the data center industry and energy utilities, as data center providers and customers seek to lock in access to large amounts of power to support AI adoption. However, even though adoption of generative AI and other types of AI is strong, it is difficult to know how much infrastructure will be required and where. To meet the power requirements of AI infrastructure, utilities are planning to build additional gas-fired power plants or keep coal-fired power plants online, raising sustainability concerns as well. AI requirements will continue to affect the industry, and data center demand will remain strong. However, there could be some major shifts in data center design and location, as well as some proposed facilities that either do not get built or are built later than planned.
Discover the ten key trends that the 451 Research analysts anticipate in 2026.
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Introduction:
The year ahead holds significant promise for IT, especially considering the recent upheaval that swept across the field. Enterprises scrambled to address the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and vendors and service providers pivoted to fill the needs that these shifts created. This report looks at five key areas in IT that will have significant impacts today and in the near future. They are bound together by the need to more closely connect technology to the people who interact with it, shifting technology from an end to a means. Technology must serve new models of work, meld dispersed elements of infrastructure, and inform and enhance customer experience while securing the systems and information that drive it.
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