Data centres – a new dimension to automaker decision-making

With projections from Navigant Research that 400 million connected cars will be on public roads come 2020, OEMs are being forced to begin to tackle the task of storing the data these cars produce. But it is not as simple as OEMs pumping millions into data centres to solve this problem. Indeed, connected cars provide roughly 25 gigabytes of data per hour, with autonomous vehicles expected to produce anywhere between 170 to 840 gigabytes in the same timeframe. It is this huge increase in data that is turning heads in the industry.