With Cloud Infrastructure, How Much is Too Much?

With Cloud Infrastructure, How Much is Too Much?

Data centers are burning through cash.  As AI and cloud demand continue their meteoric rise, infrastructure costs are following the same trend. Research from the Dell’Oro Group found that data center capital expenditures jumped 51% in 2024 to $455 billion, and could reach as high as $1 trillion by 2029. Hyperscalers’ deployment of servers for AI training workloads accounted for most of the growth last year.  With these eye-popping investments sh…