Monday, November 3, 2025

Leading Off [Understanding Data Centers] - Alex Panas & Axel Karlsson, McKinsey

In today’s increasingly digital economy, the need for better, more powerful infrastructure to fuel gen AI, agentic AI, and other emerging tech advancements is growing quickly. Enter data centers, the facilities that house and run critical IT infrastructure such as servers, storage devices, and network equipment. Global demand for more data centers—and their data processing, storage, and distribution capabilities—is already high. This week, we look at how the need for more computing power to fuel innovation is driving a boom in data center development.