Among datacenter owners and operators in Washington DC, the next 12 months will see a shift in investment focus. In the 12 months to April 2009 the key reasons for datacenter investment included increasing power into the facility, to improve cooling and to cater for required expansion to capacity. Over the next 12 months the need to increase power will remain strong but the need to reduce operating costs (projected to increase by 12% year on year) and to prepare for virtualization/cloud computing have both increased in importance. At the same time the need to increase IT capacity and increasing redundancy have both diminished in importance.