The Cost of Doing Data: What the Data Center Boom Means for IT Budgets
It wasn’t extraordinarily long ago that data centers were invisible to most business leaders. They were simply where ‘the cloud lived.’
Fast forward to 2026 and they have become one of the biggest infrastructure stories in technology.
Driven by the rapid growth of AI, cloud computing, digital transformation, cybersecurity requirements, and high-performance computing, organizations around the world are investing billions in new data center capacity. According to Synergy Research Group, global spending on cloud infrastructure services continues to grow by more than 20%...