Cloud data centers could soon feature lots more robot staff

Data centers around the world will soon have a lot more robot staff than they have today, and as a result will be significantly more efficient, a new report from Gartner claims. The market analysts say that by 2025, half of cloud data centers will deploy bots with AI and ML capabilities and will be 30% more efficient for it. While the promise of operational efficiency may be the driving force behind the growing interest in bots, it's actually the expanding gap between growing server and storage volumes at data centers and the number of capable works to manage them all, that motivates data center operators most. "The risk of doing nothing to address these shortcomings is significant for companies," explained Gartner research VP Sid Nag. "Data center operations will only increase in complexity as organizations move more diverse workloads to the cloud, and as the cloud becomes the platform for a combinatorial use of additional technologies such as edge and 5G, to name a few."