Session 7: Data Center Trends & Potential

This Session 7 video from Data Center Guru outlines global and India-specific data center trends, quantifies the near-term market potential, and maps challenges to concrete opportunities for professionals and businesses. It highlights accelerating digitization and cloud adoption, a push for clean energy and sustainability, rising standardization and industrialized delivery, smart/DCIM-enabled operations, persistent skills shortages, and growing CIO accountability that is steering enterprises toward hybrid IT models. The session frames multi-year investment momentum, explains how hyperscalers and co-location providers drive capacity growth, and connects demand drivers like OTT, AI/ML, 5G, IoT, and virtual workspaces to higher rack densities and new edge footprints. It then discusses India’s trajectory—fast capacity expansion, policy tailwinds like data localization, and bottlenecks in deployment speed, project quality, EPC depth, skills, and approvals—before translating these into opportunities around EPC entry, workforce development, stronger quality governance, lifecycle technology adoption, operational sustainability, innovation, and design standardization.