It remains to be seen how high-performance computing, data storage, colocation and cloud computing use cases might change over the next decade, beyond the expectation that change will happen. Edge computing, for example, will disperse some compute resources.
Storage might further centralize, and could shift to new locations in remote areas where power costs are low, even if the storage sites are in rural areas.
High-performance computing might take a couple of paths, depending on the use cases. Real-time apps are likely to need facilities that are near large population centers where such apps are required and where access to wide area and metro networks is plentiful.
Applied Digital Corporation, for example, is building a specialized processing center, a five-megawatt facility next to the Company’s currently operating 100-MW hosting facility in Jamestown, North Dakota.
The new center was designed and purpose-built for graphics processing units and is designed to run high performance computing applications including natural language processing and machine learning.
The new 16,382-square foot building is planned for energization in the first calendar quarter of 2023.
The hope is that new high-performance apps can be run at such remote data centers. Perhaps obviously, such apps would not be latency sensitive or especially designed to support real-time processing needs.
It remains to be seen whether HPC-optimized data centers located in areas with very low cost energy, but located far from metro areas, could become a new niche within the cloud computing and data center industries.
It might seem equally plausible that such areas might also become more important for bulk data storage, which likewise does not require real-time response.
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