Some providers now offer “lifetime” cloud packages with no monthly or yearly payments and no inactivity clause. In this landscape of mergers and acquisitions, there is no guarantee that lifetime cloud providers will be around long enough to honor these promises. In the future, most of us will probably need a lot more than this, which could mean a lot more data centers (roughly 100 new data centers are set to be constructed in the UK alone within the next five years). We may also see more bunkers being repurposed as data centers. Some providers, like Florida-based Data Shelter, are even considering building entirely new bunker structures from scratch to house digital data.