New State of the Data Center Report: Hybrid IT Now Dominates Enterprise Architecture, with Colocation Anchoring Critical Workloads

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Uptime, Security, Connectivity and Performance Overtake Cost as Primary Drivers of Enterprise IT Decisions Across Cloud, Colocation and On-Prem Environments DENVER, July 08, 2026 --( BUSINESS WIRE )-- CoreSite , an American Tower company (NYSE: AMT) empowering critical business and AI workloads that impact everyday life through interconnected data center solutions, today released its 2026 State of the Data Center Report , which examines how enterprise IT strategies are evolving as organizations enter a new phase of hybrid infrastructure management. The seventh edition of the report shows that hybrid IT has become the standard operating model for enterprises – but that companies are still looking for the right hybrid IT mix. After years of cloud migration and hybrid adoption, organizations are shifting their focus from deciding whether to use cloud, colocation or on-premises infrastructure to determining which workloads belong in each environment. As workloads become more distributed and AI drives greater infrastructure demands, enterprises are taking a more deliberate approach to workload placement, making decisions based on performance, security, data control and connectivity requirements rather than cost alone. "An organization's success will be determined by its ability to deploy hybrid workloads at scale, and by future-proofing with higher power densities and faster connectivity," said Juan Font, President and CEO of CoreSite and SVP of American Tower. "The future belongs to organizations that align the right infrastructure with the right workloads." High-level insights and key data points from this year's report include:

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