Dan Thompson is a principal research analyst in the 451 Research technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He leads the Datacenter Services and Infrastructure team, which is charged with keeping tabs on the datacenter industry globally to better understand its trends and growth areas. His research includes analyses of datacenter providers, market size and supply/demand in key and emerging markets around the world. Dan also provides coverage of datacenter providers offering services beyond colocation, such as managed and cloud-type services. Dan also provides research on the sustainability of the datacenter industry. Beyond just renewable energy purchasing and carbon offsetting, he has been investigating full life cycle emissions, including supply chain emissions, as well as efficiency gains and water usage. Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Dan spent 15 years as a practitioner in the IT industry, the last 10 years at a top managed/cloud service provider. Dan has worn many hats in the IT world, from systems administration to management, and was most recently an enterprise architect. In that role, he not only assisted in the launch of the company's security practice, but also created security-specific products and designed security into every solution launched to the customer base. In addition to a good many IT industry certifications, Dan currently holds degrees in network security and forensics and information technology. Prior to joining 451 Research, Dan spent 15 years as a practitioner in the IT industry, the last 10 of which were spent at a top managed/cloud service provider. Dan has worn many hats in the IT world, from systems administration to management, and was most recently an enterprise architect. In that role, Dan not only assisted in the launch of the company's security practice, but also created security-specific products, and designed security into every solution launched to the customer base. Dan has been quoted in a number of top publications including The Wall Street Journal, as well as industry-specific publications such as CyberTrend Magazine. He is a regular speaker at client and industry events globally, and regularly appears on regional NBC affiliate stations across East Tennessee. In addition to a good many IT industry certifications, Dan currently holds degrees in Network Security and Forensics, and Information Technology.
Immediately after Georgia Power requested an increase in generation and transmission of power, citing datacenters as the main source of new load demand, Georgia lawmakers began questioning the state's datacenter incentives program.
The digital infrastructure provider recently announced a partnership with NVIDIA whereby they are offering a fully managed deployment of NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure from within Equinix's datacenters. The service should allow customers to more easily acquire and manage infrastructure used for custom generative AI workloads.
With its revised artificial intelligence strategy, the city-state has committed to ensuring sufficient power allocations for AI infrastructure, but colocation datacenter suppliers are not holding their breath. What stands out to the industry is Singapore's pledge to allocate power and carbon budget to facilities housing AI workloads.
Australia's datacenter market looks positioned for substantial growth over the next five years across the country. 451 Research has released a new Technology & Business Insight report examining the overall scope and growth of the multi-tenant datacenter market in Australia, particularly Sydney and Melbourne.
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