The massive capital expenditure on AI infrastructure is creating a new and specialized market for testing and benchmarking, which in turn is driving collaborations between testing companies and infrastructure providers. Companies like Keysight, Rohde and Schwarz, Spirent, and Anritsu are racing to verify, benchmark, and assure the performance and high availability/low latency of AI infrastructure. For example, testing of accelerators and the network fabric are part of the guarantees buyers want in their SLAs. Other types of testing revolve around interoperability, standards compliance, chipset performance, capacity, signaling, bandwidth, and latency — to name just a few.

Asia-Pacific (APAC) is the fastest-growing region in the test and measurement market. It’s a market in which total AI chipset revenues for cloud and data center applications are expected to soar from $57 billion in 2025 to $81 billion by 2030. According to Omdia chief analyst Liam Jye, who spoke to RCR Wireless News, that growth will be driven largely by investment from China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, the markets most active in the deployment of hyperscale and sovereign AI data centers. APAC governments are playing a key role in shaping investment decisions through AI strategies, data localization policies, and digital sovereignty frameworks.

Closeby, Japan is also moving aggressively toward sovereign AI data centers, with government-backed initiatives to promote secure, localized data processing for AI. Sustainability is a big part of the focus there, and this week, Hitachi announced it would work with OpenAI to jointly expand sustainable, next-generation AI data centers in Japan and worldwide. Under the agreement, Hitachi and OpenAI will co-develop solutions to minimize strain on power grids, advance zero-emission data center concepts, secure critical long-lead-time equipment, and promote standardization of modular and prefabricated designs to shorten construction times.