DATA CENTRE STRATEGY
“ THESE AI DATA CENTRES, IF YOU WILL, ARE IMPROPERLY DESCRIBED. THEY ARE, IN FACT, AI FACTORIES”
Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia
And advances in hardware directly translate to new investment requirements.
According to JLL’ s 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, GPU improvement cycles are driving up rack densities at a record pace – from 41kW to 130kW today, to upwards of 250kW per rack in the future. This not only means higher capital cost per square metre, but a dramatic increase in operational and energy demands. Forward-thinking operators are rushing to address these needs, with suppliers and technologists competing to deliver breakthroughs in power delivery and cooling.
Transforming asset values and capital flow Consultancies tracking the sector are nearly unanimous about what comes next. JLL, in its 2025 Global Data Center Outlook, summarises:
“ The data centre industry stands at the dawn of a transformative era, driven by the relentless advancement of artificial intelligence. This technological revolution is not merely evolving the digital infrastructure landscape, it is fundamentally redefining it.”
JLL’ s analysis projects a compound annual growth rate( CAGR) of 15 %
datacentremagazine. com 77