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DATA CENTER POWER STRATEGY

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  • Power Procurement
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  • Natural Gas, Solar, Utilities, Nuclear
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Data Center Site Selection & Powered Land

  • Data Center Land Acquisition
  • From Land to Lease
  • Tenant & Landlord Representation
  • Full-Cycle Execution
  • Strategic Location Analysis
  • MW to GW-scale Power Availability
  • Utility Partnerships
  • Shovel-Ready Site Preparation

DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT

Powered Land Development & Delivery

  • BTS & Turnkey Development
  • Hyperscale Development
  • Shovel-Ready Data Center Sites
  • Strategic BD & Partnerships
  • Entitlements, Zoning, Permitting
  • Land Acquisition & Real Estate
  • Infrastructure Delivery (Power + Fiber)
  • From Ground to Gigawatt

DATA CENTER INTERCONNECTION

Connectivity & Fiber Strategy

  • Cloud, Colocation, AI/ML Readiness
  • Fiber & Network Infrastructure
  • From Connectivity to Cloud
  • Network Procurement & Deployment
  • Channel & Ecosystem Partners
  • Workload & Latency Strategy

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Digital Infrastructure & Partnerships

  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cloud, Colo, Voice & Data Services
  • Digital Infrastructure Consulting
  • Digital Infrastructure Delivery
  • Cloud GPU,  GPUaaS, AI/ML
  • Compare, Secure & Deploy IT Services

DATA CENTER NEWS

JLL’s 2023 North American Data Center Report

Big Demand Meets Tight Supply

If data centers are the bricks holding society together, then the power that operates them is the mortar, according to JLL’s new H2 2023 North American Data Center Report. Here's why demand has stayed strong, why supply has tightened, and why ChatGPT uses "roughly as much power as 33,000 households.

According to a new report from Dallas-based JLL, society is accelerating the volume of data it creates at a rapid rate—and that data is foundational to how we work, live, and play.

The report said that data center demand remained strong throughout the year, but the search for power and land among limited supply is forcing a shift toward secondary and new, emerging markets.

North Texas highlights

Supply

  • Given the scarcity of supply, securing suitable data center space in the region has become a significant challenge for businesses, leading to a competitive landscape among providers and potentially driving up the cost of data center services.

Demand

  • DFW has witnessed a considerable surge in data center demand, attracting numerous providers who are acquiring land with the intention of developing large-scale campuses.

Market Trends

  • Large blocks of available capacity are becoming increasingly scarce in the current market. To ensure they secure the space they need, users are actively preleasing capacity at upcoming builds.

Other markets and impact of AI

AI and Large Language Models such as ChatGPT require tremendous amounts of power, and its popularity is soaring, JLL said. ChatGPT had just over 100 million monthly users in January 2023, according to JLL and that by November, it had over 100 million active users weekly.

Seeking power, land, and innovation

With cloud and hyperscale users dominant in the larger markets, smaller enterprise users are pressed to find colocation space and power to meet their needs. JLL said that some enterprise users are evaluating the shift from enterprise to cloud due to rising costs, latency, and information security concerns and are moving toward a distributed cloud environment or outsourcing enterprise data center operations.

See JLL’s full H2 2023 North American Data Center Report HERE

Original Article: https://dallasinnovates.com/big-demand-meets-tight-supply-jlls-2023-north-american-data-center-report/