Disaster Recovery Journal Spring 2025

Key Data Center Trends Shaping Business Continuity in 2025 By DAN RAPP D iscussions about artificial intelli gence adoption often focus on its potential to increase productivity and operational efficiency across various business functions. While Liquid Cooling for High-Performance Computing As business-critical applications inte grate AI, chip manufacturers continue to shrink chip sizes while increasing capac ity. However, this progress brings chal lenges, particularly in managing the heat generated by high-performance chips. In response, the critical digital infrastruc ture industry is rapidly developing next generation cooling solutions capable of efficiently removing large amounts of heat while maintaining energy efficiency. these advancements provide competi tive benefits, they also mean companies are becoming more dependent on digital applications and the supporting IT infra structure—making data centers a key component of business continuity strate gies, even for organizations that haven’t relied on them as heavily in the past.

Continuous operation of liquid cooling systems is essential to sustaining high performance computing loads and must be protected. Modern Power Solutions and Energy Alternatives Aligning the evolution of chips, power, and cooling requires collaboration among key players to ensure chip availability, infrastructure readiness, and utility sup port. High-density computing environ ments demand reliable energy sources, but access can be challenging, particularly in remote locations and global regions affected by power instability. Power man agement equipment is evolving to support high-power density loads with minimal efficiency losses, while compatibility with alternative energy sources enhances reliability, flexibility, and environmental responsibility.

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