By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publication Date: 2025-12-17 15:51:00
The way organizations plan, design and manage a data center was already under pressure. AI has turned that pressure into a once-in-a-generation stress test, inspiring a top-to-bottom rethink of what the data center does, how it does it, and where.
“What we’re seeing now is seismic,” says Dave Strong, director of professional and advisory services for UKIMEA at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “This is the biggest change we’ve ever seen, end-to-end, in data centers.”
For years, organizations have treated data center management as an asset that needs to be worked on. While an efficient, secure, high-performance data center was critical to business, most ran relatively predictable workloads. Now, introduce dynamic and demanding AI workloads into the mix. AI-driven innovation in business tests whether data center infrastructure can deliver.
HPE’s answer to that question is based on three things: AI readiness, connectivity, and power. To support…