How have data centers evolved and how will we adapt to meet modern data storage demands? In this episode Bill sits down with John Bonczek, Chief Revenue Officer of fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty, a leading developer of highly interconnected, custom-designed data centers.
They discuss the impact of AI on power and cooling requirements and the growing interest in edge deployments. John also highlights the importance of planning, customer requirements, and the challenges of building data centers to meet modern demands.
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“ And I believe everyone in the space, including AI and hyperscalers, are planning further ahead, as well. Partially because you have to, but you look at the consumption of some of these AI companies that are coming in and gobbling up all of the available inventory out there that meets their needs, it's just causing a lack of inventory to be available.”
“There's going to be a next wave from AI, more of the inference applications that are more of the edge applications that require lower latency and more real time compute and learning.”
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Timestamps:
(01:45) How John got started in tech
(06:45) Data centers and edge deployments
(11:13) Challenges in modern data centers
(20:29) The role of AI
(31:01) Power and sustainability in data centers
(35:50) Nomad Futurists and the future workforce
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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.
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