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Efosa Udinmwen

It's official - more IT work is now off-prem than ever before, and it's sucking up a whole load of power

A data center with racks of servers and lots of lights glowing.
  • Third-party data centers now host more enterprise workloads than corporate server facilities
  • AI infrastructure is steadily pushing rack power requirements to unprecedented operational levels
  • Rising electricity costs continue squeezing already stretched data center operating budgets everywhere

Corporate IT infrastructure is increasingly moving beyond company-owned facilities as organizations rely more heavily on third-party data centers for critical workloads.

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