Data centers are increasingly the backbone of the modern digital economy enabling the technology necessary for industries to function and thrive. As technology scales and grows, including the tidal wave of changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI), data center needs are rising exponentially.
The importance of data centers to the digital economy has created tremendous opportunities and significant challenges. Participants in the data center ecosystem — including real estate developers, utility providers, facility operators, equipment vendors and IT infrastructure providers ranging from server to GPU (graphics processing unit) chip manufacturers as well as customers utilizing the capacity — are learning how to navigate this growth.
With EY, companies across all industries can shape the future with confidence and leverage the data center ecosystem to support their business models and develop competitive advantage.