As the ITAD and electronics recycling sectors move into 2026, the outlook is about how structural change will be uneven and how its consequences will be absorbed. In continuation with 2025, elevated asset volumes continue to move through the system, yet the conditions...
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...
The third-quarter earnings reports from hardware, cloud, and lifecycle companies confirm that the decommissioning industry (decom) is expanding from hardware collection and recovery to the platforming of value creation through integration, compliance, and automation....
Ingram Micro’s latest quarterly results reveal a rapid acceleration beyond traditional IT distribution and into the full spectrum of lifecycle orchestration and digital platform services. They confirm to a certain extent what I have been saying all along: companies...
The approaching end of Microsoft’s Windows 10 era will set in motion one of the most synchronized technology transitions the IT asset disposition (ITAD) and recycling sectors have ever witnessed. Between late 2026 and 2028, roughly 320 to 350 million laptops and...
