Our 2020 podcast season kicks off with a series of shows based on DCF’s annual forecast, which we call “Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center in 2020.” On this podcast, we explore two of the most important trends: data tonnage, and the hardware arms race around artificial intelligence, or AI.

Our number one trend is the explosive growth of data, which will be felt in 2020 like never before. Data tonnage creates challenges in both the distribution and concentration of data.

Also, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a starring role in this data tsunami. AI is a hardware-intensive computing technology that will analyze data both near and far. That includes everything from algorithm training at cloud campuses to inference engines running on smartphones.

Links:

The Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2020​

https://datacenterfrontier.com/the-eight-trends-that-will-shape-the-data-center-industry-in-2020/​

Scorecard: Looking Back at DCF’s 2019 Predictions

https://datacenterfrontier.com/scorecard-looking-back-at-dcfs-2019-predictions/

Too Big to Deploy: How GPT-2 is Breaking Servers

https://towardsdatascience.com/too-big-to-deploy-how-gpt-2-is-breaking-production-63ab29f0897c

Data Gravity is Shifting the Data Center Network 

https://datacenterfrontier.com/data-gravity-is-shifting-the-data-center-network-but-in-which-direction/

New AI Chips Seek to Reshape Data Center Design, Cooling

https://datacenterfrontier.com/new-ai-chips-seek-to-reshape-data-center-design-cooling/