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Where to Invest in Future Decommissioning Corridors: The Geographic and Utility Forces Reshaping U.S. Data Centers

The U.S. data center landscape is shifting from a historically concentrated model anchored in Northern Virginia toward a multi-regional grid of hyperscale, AI-compute, and colocation campuses extending across the Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Mountain West. This redistribution is driven primarily by power availability, utility policy, land supply, and the explosive growth of AI workloads that […] Continue reading below.
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The U.S. data center landscape is shifting from a historically concentrated model anchored in Northern Virginia toward a multi-regional grid of hyperscale, AI-compute, and colocation campuses extending across the Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Mountain West. This redistribution is driven primarily by power availability, utility policy, land supply, and the explosive growth of AI workloads that demand high-density, accelerator-rich infrastructure.

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Author: David Daoud | Principal Analyst

David Daoud has researched the mainstream IT hardware market since 1996 and expanded into hardware disposition research in 2003. He has spearheaded the creation of IDC’s GRADE certification. Since then, David has been providing consulting and expert advice to companies looking to establish best practice in their IT equipment decommissioning and helped leading ITAD service providers assess demand, understand competition, and forecast what’s to come. David is currently the Principal Analyst at Compliance Standards, which focuses entirely on the end-of-life of IT equipment. He can be reached at 754-229-0095 or at ddaoud@compliance-standards.com

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