Sustainability Magazine September 2025 Issue 56 | Page 184

Digital transformation and energy management in the wake of AI

Five trends that will most impact data centre operations in 2025

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Adjust to meet exploding capacity demands 40 % of data centre operators say they are chellenged to meet growing infrastructure demands, with 28 % specifically citing the need to understand and deploy capacity for Al workloads

Use Al to optimize data centre operations 38 %

use or plan to use an energy power management platform( ie. BMS, EPMS, DCIM) to manage their data centre operations, among this group many believe Al and machine learning will help them better monitor data centre equipment( 55 %), network / IT systems( 46 %) and power / cooling equipment( 45 %)
Improve sustainability and energy efficiency

41 % renewable

plan to increase their use of energy sources
Plan for edge and decentralisation

22 % data

plan to devise / deploy edge centers and strategy
Ensure data security and compliance

56 % theft

cite managing concerns, such as cyberattacks or data
, as their top challenge