As we enter 2022 , the decade is increasingly shaping up to be a pivotal one for the data centre industry . The world - driven to embrace remote work en mass , disrupted , and digitalised - enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic . Milestone technologies like 5G , edge computing , and the Internet of Things , continue to place greater and greater demands upon our ability to capture , store , transfer , and analyse data . And the effects of the climate crisis , felt more keenly than ever , are driving seismic change throughout every industry .
Increasingly , the data centre industry finds itself as both the bedrock of the modern world , and at the forefront of fast-acting change required to preserve it . In order to get a better idea of how exactly the various megatrends defining the decade so far will affect the data centre industry in 2022 , I tracked down experts from some of the world ’ s leading data centre operators to get their opinions and predictions for the year to come .
The end of colocation ? The past two years have seen an intriguing trend in the architecture of data centre fabrics . Just as the decade before saw the slow ( if somewhat exaggerated ) demise of the on-premises data centre , the rise of the hyperscale data centre segment , as
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