Generative AI and other intelligent applications have become some of the biggest innovations of our era, offering staggering value and opportunity across a wide range of industry use cases. Yet, at the points where AI and data centers (the core facilities supporting massive compute requirements) intersect, these two digital powerhouses may be in unintended opposition.
Data centers and AI have, in many ways, grown up together; as new, data-hungry use cases emerged, data centers found ways to densify operations and deliver more power. In turn, AI found new ways to leverage that power, putting the industry on a cycle of progress and rising pressure.