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LEWIS WHITE VICE PRESIDENT OF ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE EUROPE , COMMSCOPE the world ,” says John Bidgood , Chief Technology Officer at Systal Technology Solutions . “ The desire to migrate towards cloud-based services , improvements to fibre network connectivity and the rise of utility and real estate costs are driving our customers towards these solutions more than ever before .”
However , some key reasons for colocation market expansion are the rising adoption of AI and cloud . While generative AI ( Gen AI ) models present both opportunities and risks , including public anxieties , many governments are already addressing the concerns alongside the positives .
Already , the data centre is feeling the impact of AI . As Lewis White , Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure Europe at CommScope , explains : “ Any existing governmental data centres do not have the correct infrastructure or power capacity in place to support the bandwidth required for AI . Fortunately ,
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