Data Centre Magazine February 2025 | Page 148

1964

Liquid cooling was first developed by IBM in the 1960s

2010

Data consumption sat at two billion terabytes in 2010

2023 2024

There were approximately 16.6 billion IoT connections worldwide in 2023 , a figure that is projected to rise to 18.8 billion
CBRE research suggests the data centre vacancy rate in Europe is expected to fall to 9.7 % by the end of 2024 , the first time it has closed in single-digits
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