THE EDGE ith the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic ,

Clearly , the world is entering a new age , one where the digital economy plays the starring role . And with that , energy – the literal engine of the digital world – is now one of the key competitive factors for the digital economy ’ s success .

Which is also to say : accelerated transformation of energy infrastructure , as the world digitalises , is inevitable , driving big changes for energy enterprises and the sector as a whole . Of course , energy conservation and emissions reductions – under the threat of irreversible climate change – are pressing global concerns . With all industries actively engaged in implementing carbon neutrality goals , building greener and far more energy efficient data centres is a major target for the data centre industry . Fortunately , this is an area that Huawei has already explored and made significant breakthroughs in .

Data centres are evolving , shifting focus to the additional value they add beyond simple storage . Accordingly , traditional construction models are changing , moving towards modularisation and prefabrication . And the arrival of Huawei FusionDC on the market – a next-generation , green data centre solution – has further shaken up how things used to be done .

Indeed , its promise is the wholesale reconstruction of data centres , from overall architecture and management to temperature control and power supply systems . And the results ? Power Usage Effectiveness ( PUE ) that ’ s substantially improved , building truly low carbon and energy saving data centres .

A greener way to build

In contrast to the traditional way that data centres were previously built , Huawei ’ s FusionDC has a modular design , with all core subsystems prefabricated in the factory . This means that modules simply have to be assembled on-site , block by block , making construction far faster and far , far easier .

Indeed , with this solution , a high-level data centre with 1,000 cabinets can be delivered within just six months , supporting rapid service rollout . Plus , building a prefabricated modular data centre involves dramatically reduced waste and while the assembly rate

Sanjay Kumar Sainani , Global SVP & CTO for Data Center Business Unit of Huawei

( the proportion of equipment that is prefabricated ) reaches 97 %.

In the case of a five-story building area of 8,600 m ² and 1,500 cabinets with power density of 8 kW per cabinet , construction waste is slashed by 80 %.

Furthermore , carbon emissions related to construction tumble by 90 %. This truly is a greener way to build data centre facilities . www . intelligentdatacentres . com

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