"How much infrastructure will be needed to support the Internet of Things? Industry veteran Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer at Apcera, recently ran an analysis.

“If the numbers follow a historical precedent at all we will need roughly 400 million servers to support our 2020 IoT and technology demands,” said Thiele. “Let’s look at what 400 million servers means to data centers. A massive data center with 5,000 racks with 20 servers per rack has 100,000 servers. In order to have enough data centers for 400 million servers we would need to add another 4,000 massive data centers measuring roughly 400K SF with approximately 50 megawatts of power each.”

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