The AI revolution is transforming the global business and consumer landscape, and it's also changing how telco and cloud service providers design and build infrastructure to enable this revolution.
Significant investments are being made in AI and communications, with IDC predicting that AI server and storage infrastructure spending will reach $200bn by 2028, dominated by service providers supporting "massive" increases in agentic workloads.
A recent PWC forecast states that the telecoms sector will increase its capital investment by 2.4 percent CAGR from 2024 to 2028, currently focused on fixed connectivity, but with 6G on the horizon, leading to more investment in wireless infrastructure.
Baking in sustainability begins with smart network design
Author's summary: Building sustainable AI starts with network design.