Capacity planning a rising concern for datacenter operators as AI grows

Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads. A report from Uptime Institute on the results of its 15th Annual Global Data Center Survey shows that the industry …

[retiredFool]

Bit Ironic

"Uptime found that 73 percent of respondents say they would trust an adequately trained AI model to run automated analytics on sensor data, but just 14 percent would allow such a system to make configuration changes." So the cloud has limits on what it will allow AI to access. Hmm, interesting.

[David Harper 1]

Re: Bit Ironic

"Look, but don't touch" seems like a sensible approach to take, given the immaturity of AI.

[Pete 2]

The missing twelve percent

> 45 percent of IT workloads are still operating on-premises in corporate datacenters, with another 16 percent in colocation. Only 11 percent are in public cloud infrastructure, although another 10 percent are listed as hosted private cloud, and six percent is made up of software-as-a-service.

45+16+11+10+6=88.

If I was doing capacity planning I would be rather concerned about the quality of the data I was given.