4. Focus on hardware security risks

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Historically, the use of more sophisticated cooling methods in data centers has been limited, primarily due to the high cost of installing advanced cooling systems. But as AI and heat waves create increasingly serious cooling challenges, advanced hardware cooling solutions are likely to become more attractive to data center operators in 2025 and beyond.

Recent events like the Hezbollah pager bombing have highlighted the risk of security threats posed by physical devices. While I doubt anyone is currently plotting to blow up data centers by placing secret bombs inside servers, I suspect there are threat actors looking to do something like install malicious firmware on servers as a way to create backdoors that they can use to hack into data centers.

For this reason, I think in 2025 we will be paying more attention to verifying the provenance of data center hardware and ensuring that unauthorized parties do not have access to the equipment during its production and delivery. Traditional security controls will also remain important, but I would bet that hardware security will become a bigger area of ​​concern in 2025.

5. Growing interest in Arm servers in data centers
I'll end this list of data center hardware trends with a austria mobile database may be wrong, even though it seems plausible: 2025 may be the year Arm servers finally start being widely used in data centers.

Arm servers are servers whose computer chips use the Arm architecture, rather than the x86 architecture that has historically powered almost all servers. The Arm architecture offers a number of advantages, including greater energy efficiency.

There has been talk of wider adoption of Arm chips in data centers for some time. But it hasn’t happened yet. However, there is every reason to believe it could happen in 2025, especially as concerns about data center power consumption in the AI ​​era grow. In theory, Arm servers could improve the energy efficiency of data centers, including those hosting AI workloads.

Overall, I wouldn't bet much on 2025 being the year of the Arm server, mainly because moving to Arm will require more software changes than most organizations are willing to make.