In 2023, 73% of U.S. companies adopted artificial intelligence (AI) in at least some areas of their businesses. And the integration of this transformative technology is only expected to continue across industries. But as AI demand surges, one thing often gets overlooked: the infrastructure required to support its future.
Even a modest deployment of AI requires vast amounts of energy and computing power. Yet, many enterprises are working without the modern data center infrastructure critical to maximizing opportunities and minimizing costs and downtime.
“AI is putting immense pressure on data center operators to find the space and capacity to bring new services online. It’s happening at a level never seen before.”
—
Robert Hormuth
Corporate Vice President, Architecture and Strategy, Data Center Solutions Group at AMD
The data center demand
As new AI application demands rapidly collide with existing IT infrastructure limitations, organizations need to address these infrastructure deficiencies, or they’ll risk falling behind. But IT architectures are already struggling to support existing workloads, and data center space is scarce.
annual growth rate of data center demand through 2030
~10%
Source: McKinsey & Company
square feet size of the average data center
Source: Datacenters.com
100K
of data center capacity in North America occupied as of March 2023
Source: datacenterHawk
~97%
Whether an enterprise owns and operates its data center or it leases space in one of the thousands around the U.S., the overall performance and efficiency of the data center is reliant on the quality of the servers.
Inside the Data Center
of organizations believe their IT environments need upgrades to meet future demand. Source: Vanguard
of companies have kept their servers in operation for five years or longer. Source: Uptime Institute
Enterprises with an entire server fleet more than three years old report higher costs and slower time to market as the top consequences of retaining their aging servers.
67%
52%
Advancing data center performance & efficiency
At a time when organizations worldwide are grappling with the need to process massive amounts of data while minimizing their costs, power, and space footprints, selecting a processor that can support workloads with agility, efficiency, and security is key. AMD delivers enterprise solutions that enable greater data center consolidation, helping customers be prepared for future workloads and expanding the capabilities of their data centers.
Modernizing Your Data Center Brings…
Operating cost reductions
1
Physical data center capacity extension through consolidation
2
Significant energy efficiency advantages
3
The ability to respond to the growing infrastructure demands of AI
4
Source: Vanguard
“The performance of older equipment declines over time, while the time, cost, and space needed to keep it running rises. Eventually, they will become less able to keep pace with the increased, changing business demands.”
—Robert Hormuth
Organizations with constrained physical data center footprints and power capacities have limited options to expand their data centers’ infrastructure. Building new data center space is a time- and energy-intensive process that can slow down an organization’s adoption of AI. 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors enable businesses to consolidate infrastructure and reduce capital and operational expenditures.
AMD EPYC™ processors are designed to advance business
A single server powered by the 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor can replace five legacy servers, resulting in a 58% drop in total cost of ownership over three years.
Powering the future of AI
Data center modernization is essential to ensuring that businesses can meet the increasing demands of emerging technologies and digital transformation. Servers need to be equipped with the computing performance and efficiency that provides the flexibility to evolve as AI models and algorithms progress. AMD EPYC™ processors simplify consolidation projects while ensuring that sufficient compute resources for new applications, workloads, and innovative services are in the pipeline.
THE AMD EPYC™ ADVANTAGE
Leadership performance AMD EPYC™ processors power high-performing x86 servers for the modern data center— on premises and in cloud environments—across industries.
Source: AMD
Energy efficiency AMD EPYC™ processors power energy-efficient x86 servers, helping to reduce energy costs and meet corporate sustainability goals.
Security AMD EPYC™ processors include AMD Infinity Guard, a comprehensive suite of security features that can keep your data safe.
To learn more about how AMD is helping companies achieve their business goals, visit AMD.com.
POWERING
OF THE FUTURE
the data center
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As new AI application demands rapidly collide with existing IT infrastructure limitations, organizations
At a time when organizations worldwide are grappling with the need to process massive amounts of data while minimizing their costs, power, and space footprints, selecting a processor that can support workloads with agility, efficiency, and security is key. AMD delivers enterprise solutions that enable greater data center consolidation, helping customers be prepared for future workloads and expanding the capabilities of their data centers.
Data center modernization is essential to ensuring that businesses can meet the increasing demands of emerging technologies and digital transformation. Servers need to be equipped with the computing performance and efficiency that provides the flexibility to evolve as AI models and algorithms progress. AMD EPYC™ processors simplify consolidation projects while ensuring that sufficient compute resources for new applications, workloads, and innovative services are in the pipeline.
Source: Forrester
Source: AMD
“The performance of older equipment declines over time, while the time, cost, and space needed to keep it running rises. Eventually, they will become less able to keep pace with the increased, changing business demands.”
“AI is putting immense pressure on data center operators to find the space and capacity to bring new services online. It’s happening at a level never seen before.”