Goldman Sachs: Data center demand is peaking in 2025
2025 will be the year of peak data center demand, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts.
While occupancy rates are high, Goldman’s prior estimate of data center demand peaking in 2026 has been moved up.
The past few weeks have seen major signs of cooling demand, with Microsoft canceling several data center projects in the US.
Big tech companies like Meta and Amazon are still moving ahead with plans to spend about $315 billion on data centers and AI infrastructure this year.
Another note from Wedbush this week estimated that 10% to 15% of major AI data center projects could be paused or canceled due to the current chaos in global trade.
The analysts wrote:
“On the demand side, we have updated our datacenter demand growth forecasts by category on the back of our global technology team’s recent cuts to AI training server volume estimates. These estimate changes and adjustments to their view are tied to a more gradual pace of AI training demand, as well as the adoption of AI inference and the datacenter workload demand accompanying it.”