AI hardware end-of-life poses infrastructure challenge
· Source: datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.com
In short
Investment in AI data centers and information-processing hardware has reached roughly $752 billion, surpassing housing investment and creating a major end-of-life management challenge. According to Re-Teck chief strategy officer Linda Li, decommissioning AI infrastructure requires disciplined IT asset disposition (ITAD) covering asset identification, logistics, data sanitization and material recovery. Retired servers, networking gear and GPUs retain significant residual value and can be reused, refurbished or recycled to feed domestic supply chains for critical minerals, making reverse logistics central to sustainability, supply-chain resilience and national security.
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Tags: reverse-logistics, data centers, ITAD, sustainability, supply chain, recycling