Juan Font is President and CEO of CoreSite. Read Juan Font's full executive profile here.
If ever there was a moment in which technology defined the cultural zeitgeist, it’s now. Artificial intelligence innovation has shaken every industry and is altering the way we work and live in fundamental, profound, and likely irreversible ways.
Energy-intensive GPUs and TPUs give off so much heat that enhanced environmental controls, including liquid cooling solutions, can be required. This issue of heat is both a technical consideration andIn the past, in the same way that big banks have big vaults, big companies had gigantic data centers that were purpose-built for their operations.
Companies had to solve for a self-serve digital economy when the pandemic took off, resulting in rapidly increased migration of workloads from private data centers to the cloud and, more recently, to a multi-cloud architecture. This transition has also led to hybrid models, wherein a company has some applications that reside in the data center and other applications in their private cloud.
And let’s not forget scalability. Colocation data centers offer the sheer space, power, cooling capability and infrastructure to allow companies to expand AI usage as their business needs demand. Ultimately, the results for enterprises are increased AI performance, reduced costs, greater sustainability, smaller carbon footprints and greater flexibility on the whole as more of their workloads become AI-driven.