Uptime Institute's survey shows that corporations are taking a hybrid approach, but that on-premises data centers remain the mission critical centerpiece of their IT environment. Following on-prem in importance are colocation facilities and public cloud.
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The increased infrastructure requirements needed for AI workloads have largely been retrofitted into existing data centers. That's about to change.