Today’s CIOs face unprecedented challenges in modernizing their data centers to accommodate the rapidly rising demands on their infrastructures—while also facing increasingly constrained budgets. Generative AI (genAI) burst onto the scene in November 2022 with the release of ChatGPT, surprising almost everyone in the industry with its capabilities, and suddenly every CEO and board of directors began telling their CIOs to get genAI capabilities online as fast as possible. It’s common knowledge that genAI workloads are demanding, but the scale of additional power, cooling, and processing that CI…