The IT Nerd

Today, Telehouse released data from its AI Workload Strategies 2025 report, exploring how businesses around the world are navigating the complex infrastructure demands of AI deployment—while also contending with intensifying cyber threats that risk disrupting critical operations. 

The study comes at a pivotal time for global enterprises as AI initiatives scale across cloud, on-premises data centres, colocation facilities, and specialist GPU clouds—each posing unique performance, security, and connectivity demands. The findings underscore a fragmented but rapidly evolving AI infrastructure landscape, with no one-size-fits-all model. 

Some key findings from the survey include:  

• AI workloads are widely distributed: Only 35 per cent are deployed in the public cloud, while on-premises data centers, third-party colocation and specialist GPU clouds each host about 10% of workloads. 
• Network and infrastructure challenges are stalling progress: 55 per cent of businesses report significant networking issues with AI deployments, and 39 per cent have abandoned AI projects due to infrastructure-related barriers. 
• Connectivity, skills, and GPU access drive venue decisions: Companies cite internal IT skills, network/fibre availability, GPU infrastructure, and cost considerations as key factors in selecting where to deploy AI workloads. 
• Colocation providers gain appeal: Demand for AI-related services is boosting the role of colocation providers as businesses seek more tailored, high-density compute environments to support AI/ML workloads. 

There are many more findings in the full report, which can be accessed here.  

Telehouse, a leading global colocation data centre service provider, announced the launch of Telehouse Canada, bringing Canadian businesses the improved IT infrastructure and connectivity services needed to power Canadian growth and innovation. 

As Canadian organizations across all industries continue to invest in digital transformation and scale through advanced technologies like AI and Cloud Services, Telehouse Canada will meet the growing demand for highly resilient colocation services, digital connectivity and the enablement of High-Performance Computing.

Today’s announcement comes after Telehouse, together with parent company and Japanese telecommunications leader, KDDI, signed an agreement to acquire three Toronto data centres in June 2023. When fully operational, the new carrier-neutral data centres will provide more than 30MW of IT load.

KDDI has been steadily expanding Telehouse’s presence into new international markets since establishing the first Telehouse data centre in New York in 1989.  With the launch of Telehouse Canada, Telehouse now operates over 45 data centres across 10+ countries.