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As AI agents automate more steps in everyday workflows, less of that work needs to run inside large application suites. That points to slower growth in data-center demand for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, human capital management and supply-chain management software. Reasoning-model agents and deep research tools can now autonomously browse the web, pull sources and run analyses on their own \u2014 tasks that previously lived in those apps\u2019 user interfaces.<\/p>\n
Engineering software \u2014 computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing \u2014 may skirt these headwinds, as simulation and synthetic-data creation keep workloads anchored in specialized tools.<\/p>\n
AI coding agents \u2014 assistants inside developer tools that suggest, write and fix code \u2014 should give a big boost to application development and testing workloads. Agents from Cursor, Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI\u2019s Codex and Gemini Code Assist handle tasks like debugging and appending to existing code. Companies report 30-40% productivity gains on new code written with these agents, which should channel more development and testing to AI data centers. Prompt-based code generation is quickly becoming one of the most-used generative-AI features in existing business applications.<\/p>\n
As autonomous AI agents plug into business workflows, more mission-critical tasks will run in AI data centers. The rise of reasoning models like OpenAI\u2019s o3 shifts the focus to ensuring that infrastructure is fast, efficient and reliable from simply having a model. That\u2019s a tailwind for content delivery networks (CDNs) from companies like Cloudflare and cybersecurity providers such as Zscaler. Most companies seek to integrate internal knowledge databases and documentation with LLMs while relying on CDN and cybersecurity vendors to manage token consumption for LLM fine-tuning and inferencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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