How can data center TCO be applied in practice?

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Data center TCO, is shifting from a strictly financial metric, to an 'environmental TCO’ or a ‘total cost of use’, that pulls together both the resource use and carbon implications of facility inputs and outputs over its lifespan. Yet the rapid and unpredictable evolution of AI hardware is fundamentally disrupting the ability of lifecycle foreshadowing and accuracy of TCO calculations. In this environment, how can data center facilities take a full-systems approach to calculate the true costs of new facilities? We will discuss:

  • When is the right time to refresh data center hardware?
  • How can operators avoid overprovisioning and get more value from existing compute?
  • When does retrofitting existing data centers make sense versus investing in new infrastructure?
  • How should operators evaluate TCO across on-premise, cloud and emerging NeoCloud models?

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