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Under the Radar: Digital Core REIT’s CEO on the impact of AI boom on data centre demand and how Southeast Asia could be a bright spot
Did you know that a ChatGPT query takes up nearly 10 times the amount of electricity needed to run a Google search on average? That’s right. And what that means is that the current boom in artificial intelligence we’re seeing is driving up a significant increase in data centre workload and demand for data centre capacity. For one thing, the International Data Corporation or IDC expects the surging demand for AI workloads to drive up AI data centre capacity at a projected compound annual growth rate of 40.5% from 2024 through 2027. But how has that filtered down to data centre operators and…
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