Hybrid operations
HPE’s June 2026 GreenLake announcement covers unified management across hybrid environments. Planning implication: include governance and operations in the infrastructure brief.
Explore hybrid operations ↗RESEARCH & INTELLIGENCE
Evidence with context.
Decisions with perspective.
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ENERGY & COMPUTE
Energy demand is part of the infrastructure question.
IEA · Energy and AI · Published 10 April 2025
415 TWh
IEA estimate for global data-centre electricity consumption in 2024.
A scenario is not a measured outcome.
The report’s base case projects around 945 TWh in 2030. This is a 2025 projection with uncertainty around efficiency, adoption and infrastructure constraints. It covers all data centres, not AI alone, and should not be described as a current measurement.
Read the original IEA report ↗ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE
Three developments to investigate
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Owned AI infrastructure
Dell’s 2026 AI Factory update spans enterprise platforms and deployment options. Planning implication: compare operational ownership alongside hardware and software requirements.
Explore owned ai infrastructure ↗Distributed inference
Lenovo’s March 2026 announcement addresses inference across edge, data centres and cloud. Planning implication: workload placement affects latency, data handling and operations.
Explore distributed inference ↗METHOD & LIMITATIONS
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Editorial implications above are our interpretation, not announced plans for World Compute Center.
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