UII UPDATE 289 | OCTOBER 2024
Intelligence Update
How much capacity is in aging data centers?
3 Oct 2024
5 min read
Massive demand for capacity continues to drive the construction of many-megawatt data center facilities around the world, in anticipation of a steep growth in IT workloads turbo-boosted by generative AI models.
At the same time, many organizations are relying on older facilities that are approaching or exceeding their 10-to-15-year design lifespan. About half of the data center facilities are more than 10 years old, according to findings from the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024.
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