By Blake Montgomery
Publication Date: 2025-12-30 21:44:00
Hello and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy New Year’s Eve full of merriment, champagne and Mariah Carey’s hilariously terrible rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
Today we look forward to the next year of technology news. I’m watching five trends that I think will shape the year: Data centers will see rapid expansion beyond the US and China; Billionaires will reap billions more; self-driving cars will park in many brand new locations; AI will find its niche at work; and consumer technology will take strange new forms.
Data centers are spread all over the world
FILE – Cars drive past data centers that house computer servers and hardware needed to support modern Internet usage such as artificial intelligence, July 16, 2023, in Ashburn, Virginia. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File) Photo: Ted Shaffrey/AP
In 2025, data centers will expand rapidly across the US and UK. In 2026, the multi-trillion dollar project to build the…
