Top 5 Trends for Colocation Services for 2025

This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into the latest emerging datacenter technology trends that are shaping the datacenter colocation industry. New and emerging trends will change datacenter colocation facilities in terms of architecture design, cooling, storage, security, and sustainability. The datacenter industry is undergoing a significant transformation driven by need for more computing memory for hungry workloads generated by GenAI models and emerging technologies. Companies are increasingly focusing on adopting energy efficiency systems and sustainability practices. With numerous developments and advancements such as GenAI to edge computing and AI-driven analytics, datacenter industry is set to grow rapidly over the coming decade."With mounting carbon footprint-intensive energy demands generated by training GenAI models, the need for higher computing and storage capacities is pushing datacenters companies to increase focus on sustainability, adopt new and advanced cooling systems, localize datacenters, and automate datacenter operations," says Naga Avinash, research manager, Cloud Communications and Datacenter Services at IDC.