Ahead in the Clouds Latest Blog Posts Related Content Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics Download Current Issue In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation firm Kao Data, sets out why legacy datacentres may struggle to accommodate the growing demand for HPC workloads The impact of high performance computing (HPC), GPU-powered artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in the datacentre are creating a capability gap between legacy and newer, custom-engineered facilities. Exaflops are now the new measure for the supercomputing industry. Today, packing more processors into a server rack enables operators to squeeze more performance out of their technical space, but it also requires them to supply more power.