The growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) will be a boon for the data center segment. Dell’Oro forecasts AI infrastructure spending will propel data center capex to grow 15 percent to $500 billion by 2027. One of the benefits of AI in the data center is driving efficiencies by automating operational processes in traditional enterprise data centers like server upgrades, scheduling, monitoring, maintenance, patching, updating, reporting, and application delivery capacity planning. Gartner estimates that by 2025, half of cloud data centers will deploy advanced robots with AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, resulting in 30% higher operating efficiency.

This discussion will address AI's following opportunities and benefits in the data center and their effects on providers by addressing the following issues:

•    How cloud service providers and enterprises can optimize their infrastructure for AI 
•    Cloud service provider and enterprise spending trends on AI infrastructure 
•    The role of Tier 2/3 Cloud Service Providers
•    Near-term cloud and enterprise capex growth challenges
•    How AI and AI-powered data center operations use AI technologies and algorithms to automate and enhance management
•    How AI enables power outage predictions, lowers maintenance costs