Top data centre trends to watch out for in 2023

Top data centre trends to watch out for in 2023

Ashraf Yehia, Managing Director at Eaton Middle East identifies the key data trends for 2023.

With more countries revealing their sustainability visions for the future, and in the light of COP28 scheduled for Dubai, focus on sustainability initiatives is becoming crucial. The past few years have been more than just disruptive for data centres.  Organisations couldn’t predict the severity of the impact the ongoing disruption to the geopolitical landscape would have – not least that we’d be facing a severe energy crisis. Therefore, there lies a higher impetus for balancing growth in digitalization while introducing sustainable practices.

The region has witnessed an increase in data centre initiatives, with the GCC data centre market currently estimated at more than US$ 1.3 billion and expected to reach US$ 5.23 billion by 2028 – with major data centres in Saudi Arabia and UAE. And, it brings a sharper focus on the importance of addressing energy issues, as well as highlighting new challenges. It’s not all doom and gloom, though – ongoing digitalisation, for example, represents new opportunities for the sector.

Here, then, are some of the developments that we can expect to see in the data centre sector during 2023 and beyond.

1 – Energy uncertainty

While