Why Bare Metal Infrastructure Is Gaining Ground

Modern workloads are putting new demands on infrastructure. AI, data-intensive applications and growing security requirements are increasing the need for consistent performance, greater control and dedicated resources. That’s putting bare metal infrastructure back in focus, and demand is expected to grow significantly in the years ahead.

For MOD Mission Critical, bare metal isn’t a new offering. It has long been part of MOD PaaSPort™, providing businesses with on-demand access to dedicated physical infrastructure from core to edge across global markets.

A Market on a Steep Growth Curve

Bare metal cloud services are a rapidly growing segment of the infrastructure market. Fortune Business Insights values the global bare metal cloud service market at over $14 billion in 2025, projecting it will climb past $78 billion by 2034, a compound annual growth rate of roughly 21%.

Straits Research lands on a more conservative number, sizing the market at just over $12 billion in 2025 and forecasting growth to nearly $62 billion by 2034, with a projected compound annual growth rate of roughly 21% from 2026 to 2034.

The exact figures vary by methodology, but both point to the same story: demand for dedicated hardware is projected to expand significantly over the coming years.

Why the Sudden Appetite for Dedicated Hardware?

The drivers behind this growth will sound familiar to anyone managing infrastructure today:

• AI and machine learning workloads are increasing demand for consistent, high-performance compute without virtualization overhead.
• Big data analytics, real-time financial transactions, and other data-intensive workloads can benefit from dedicated resources and predictable performance.
• Data privacy and security requirements in industries such as BFSI and healthcare are contributing to demand for isolated, single-tenant environments.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud adoption is giving enterprises more flexibility to combine bare metal infrastructure with virtualized public cloud environments based on workload requirements.

Bare Metal: A Core Part of PaaSPort™

Bare metal has long been a core part of MOD PaaSPort™. Bare Metal provides dynamically programmable physical infrastructure on demand, with highly secure, fully connected, open-architecture hardware and colocation. Deployments are available globally from core to edge. MOD’s footprint extends into major data centers across its markets, putting infrastructure close to the cloud, neocloud and network providers businesses need to reach. Depending on the market and provider, those connections can be made directly or with very low latency, helping businesses connect dedicated infrastructure to the broader ecosystem around it.

Through PaaSPort™, businesses can explore infrastructure options across providers and markets and request services based on their specific requirements. Combined with MOD’s colocation, connectivity, network and cloud capabilities, this gives businesses a more flexible way to source and deploy infrastructure globally.

Built for What’s Next

The projections point to continued growth: bare metal isn’t limited to legacy or niche use cases. Growing demand reflects the performance, security and control requirements of modern workloads. MOD Mission Critical’s Bare Metal service, delivered through MOD PaaSPort™, gives businesses on-demand access to dedicated physical infrastructure with deployments available globally from core to edge.

With access to MOD’s broader ecosystem of infrastructure providers and services, businesses can build solutions based on the locations, providers and capabilities they need. Whether you’re scaling AI workloads, addressing security and compliance requirements, or simply need the control and predictable performance of dedicated infrastructure, bare metal offers another option for building the right infrastructure environment.