What lies ahead for the data center industry in 2025? At Data Center Frontier, their eyes are always on the horizon, and they’re constantly talking with industry thought leaders to get their take on key trends. Their Magic 8 Ball prognostications did pretty well last year, so now it’s time to look ahead at what’s in store for the industry over the next 12 months, as they identify eight themes that stand to shape the data center business going forward. They’ll be writing in more depth about many of these trends, but this list provides a view of the topics that they believe will be most relevant in 2025.

A publication about the future frontiers of data centers and AI shouldn't be afraid to put it's money where its mouth is, and that's why they used AI tools to help research and compose this year's annual industry trends forecast. The article is meant to be a bit encyclopedic in the spirit of a digest, less than an exactly prescriptive forecast - although they try to go there as well. The piece contains some dark horse trends. Do they think immersion cooling is going to explode this year, suddenly giving direct-to-chip a run for its money? Not exactly. But do they think that, given the enormous and rapidly expanding parameters of the AI and HPC boom, the sector for immersion cooling could see some breakthroughs this year? Seems reasonable.

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