MEDIA ALERT
This brief explores how generative AI is impacting the data canter ecosystem, how it’s changing data center development and how to design and build data centers insulated against disruption.
The pace and scale of IT innovation is accelerating, and generative AI is redefining what tenants need from data centers. Nevertheless, as IT equipment refreshes and evolutions take place on the scale of months, data center development requires years.
To address this discrepancy, Stream’s latest brief explores why obsolescence isn’t inevitable and outlines the capabilities and strategies required to build data centers that stand the test of time. Here, Stream’s team of experts answers the question: Can a data center built today continue to serve tenants’ needs well into the future?
In this Investor Brief, With the Right Developer, Technological Progress Doesn’t Mean Data Center Obsolescence, Stream highlights how AI and generative pretrained transformers (GPTs) are changing IT requirements, explores what the characteristics of a lasting data center are and outlines the qualities of a data center developer capable of building it.
The brief helps owners, operators and investors understand how to create data center developments that evolve as technology evolves, so they won’t have to walk away from a data center because it has become obsolete or worry about losing value. Here, Stream details how to achieve stability, resiliency and longevity in data center investment with information about:
- How new technologies are driving unprecedented densities and power requirements in data centers
- How to design data centers to be both backward- and forward-compatible to support traditional workloads and future advancements
- The role of proactive and collaborative innovations with a focus on configurable designs in ensuring data centers are adaptable and agile
Read the Investor Brief: With the Right Developer, Technological Progress Doesn’t Mean Data Center Obsolescence
About Stream Data Centers
Since 1999, Stream Data Centers has set new standards for innovation, operational excellence and sustainability in the data center industry. With over 90% of its inventory leased to Fortune 100 customers, the company has acquired, developed and managed complex data center projects for the world’s most demanding users.
From location strategy and site selection to data center construction and operations, Stream develops wholesale colocation capacity and build-to-suit facilities for hyperscale and enterprise users in major markets across the United States. Headwaters, the company’s site development entity, employs a team of hyperscale experts dedicated to building a land bank for the data center industry, helping Stream and others uncover low-risk land sites for optimum data center development. Additionally, Stream provides energy services with a focus on reducing market risk and providing cost-effective renewable energy options.
Stream Data Centers is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and is the technical real estate affiliate of Stream Realty Partners, a full service commercial real estate investment, development and services company with 1,550+ professionals in 20 core markets, and $8.9 billion in annual transactions.
