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A broadcasting are becoming increasingly popular , we are in an era of digitalisation which is gaining momentum in various industries . Digital Transformation is accelerating across multiple industry verticals .
Data centres are the foundation of Digital Transformation and are meeting the new opportunities for development .
Trend 1 : Zero carbon DC
Carbon neutrality has become the most urgent mission in the world , triggering a green revolution . Green power , such as wind energy and solar energy will be more widely used in data centres . It is an inevitable trend to maximise resource saving ( such as energy saving , footprint saving , water saving and material saving ) in the entire life cycle of data centres . In the large data centre facility , thermal energy recovery is a new energy saving solution . Data centre PUE will enter the 1.0x Era , and ‘ zero carbon ’ data centres will be a reality in the near future .
Trend 2 : High density
In the next five years , IT devices will continue to evolve to high computing power and density , and the CPU and server power will continue to increase . In addition , as the demand for AI applications grows , the AI computing power will increase . To balance efficiency and cost , data centres will develop to high density . It is estimated that by 2025 , diversified computing power collaboration will become mainstream and mainstream cloud data centres will form a hybrid deployment of 15 – 30 kW / cabinet .
Trend 3 : Scalable
The life cycle of IT equipment is generally three to five years and the power density is roughly doubled every five years . The life cycle of data centre infrastructure is 10 – 15 years . The infrastructure must support elastic architecture and phased investment and meet the power evolution requirements of two to three generations of IT devices with optimal CAPEX . In addition , the data centre must be flexible to support hybrid deployment of IT devices with different power density , achieving on-demand capacity expansion scalability and space saving .
Trend 4 : Fast deployment
While Internet services have a rapid outbreak in a short period of time , rapid deployment becomes essential . In addition , data centres need to shift from support systems to production systems to meet the diverse application requirements of the cloud and need to be rolled out as quickly as clouds . In
Wang Di , President , HUAWEI Digital Power , Middle East
IN THE LARGE DATA CENTRE FACILITY , THERMAL ENERGY RECOVERY IS A NEW ENERGY SAVING SOLUTION .
the future , the data centre TTM will be reduced from nine to 12 months to six months or even three months .
Trend 5 : Simple architecture
To address the disadvantages of slow construction of traditional data centres and high initial investment costs , simplified system-level and data centre-level architectures will become the mainstream . The data centre power supply and cooling architecture evolves from the traditional architecture to integrated link-level converged products . With the prefabricated and modular design , the data centre features fast deployment , elastic capacity expansion , simple O & M and efficient energy saving .
Trend 6 : Lithium for all
Traditional data centre power supply systems have issues such as complexity , high footprint , frequent accidents such as fire breakout and difficult maintenance . With the trend of lithium for all , we are reshaping the traditional batteries with lithium-based batteries in and lead-acid based batteries phase out . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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