Standing at more than one million square feet, the United States Intelligence Community’s Utah Data Center is one of the world’s largest infrastructures. Costing nearly $2 billion, the site boasts storage capacity of almost 12 exabytes. That’s impressive considering the first electronic programmable computer was turned on at the University of Pennsylvania less than 75 years ago. Data centers are evolving at unprecedented speeds, largely driven by such developments as cloud, big data, and IoT. These emerging trends are placing enhanced focus on “what’s next,” with analysts looking closely into their crystal balls to determine the future data center.

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