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THE DATA CENTRE OF TOMORROW
As well as cybersecurity, one of the most pressing of these
issues in the data centre is energy consumption, as they
now account for up to 6% of global electricity use. This
is a concern for business costs and there’s now increased
pressure to take corporate responsibility for environmental
concerns. Organisations like Greenpeace have been calling
for tech companies to become more energy conscious for
some time and now they are honing in on data centres’
carbon footprint.
agility, security and customer experience. All of which are vital
aspects all modern-day businesses are striving to achieve.
Hybrid also lets businesses choose the right workloads for
their environment, as well as to move workloads around
depending on the businesses needs and new technologies.
The ability to scale workloads on demand helps handle
the massive amounts of data being created today. And, even
more importantly, it means emerging technologies, such as AI
and ML, are more accessible.
AI and explosive growth
As with much technology underpinning business, many
data centres run on inefficient, legacy technology because
companies tend to add to existing systems rather than
optimising the existing system. All this puts extra pressure on
data centres and intensifies long-standing issues. So, in order
to keep pace, data centres will need to evolve. And AI may be
just the thing.
In the cybersecurity battle, the stakes for data centres are
particularly high. They’re complex infrastructures and have
extensive levels of encryption so preventing data breaches in
an ever-evolving IT landscape requires constant vigilance.
The solution again may lie in AI. Implementing AI systems
can offer a more flexible and sophisticated solution to data
security as well as the possibility of reducing reliance on
human intervention. The nature of AI allows it to adapt far
more quickly than humans as well as reducing the man-hours
spent on round-the-clock monitoring issues and decrease the
risk of human error.
With all these data centre opportunities unlocked by AI,
the concept of a human-free data centre is closer than many
imagine. Some companies like Litbit are already trialling
AI-driven robots to assist with data centre management and
hardware maintenance, further cementing the ties between
AI and data centre. This all then allows humans to focus on
new areas of innovation.
The need for green
Think of the world today– it’s never been richer, humans have
never lived such long, productive and healthy lives, and we’ve
brought technology to the point where mac