Keeping the air pristine inside data centre facilities is key to operating at full proficiency and protecting electronic equipment . Operators must balance this with minimising HVAC energy use which increases greenhouse gas emissions . Tony Abate , Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , AtmosAir Solutions , discusses one way to achieve both . he increased need for building new data
T centres – and upgrading existing ones – to meet the demands of AI is putting a new emphasis on utilising technologies to make them perform more efficiently and sustainably . AI requires more data processing capacity , high computational power and continuous operation . All of this adds up to more data centre capacity , more square footage and more machines operating .
It ' s been said many times before that data centres have become essential to our modern lives . Think of all the things you touch daily that are transmitted to cloud-based services all of which have servers housed in data centres . PCs or laptops , smartphones , smart doorbells and even your car send and receive data from a centralised location .
As such growth and demand for data centres is unprecedented . According to McKinsey , the data centre market is expected to grow from a current demand of 25GW in 2024 to 80GW by 2030 . To put some perspective here , 1GW is equal to one billion watts . A power plant with 1GW could power 876,000 homes for one year . Data centres will consume significant power and the need to build new facilities and improve older ones will grow significantly .
These data centres will need more power not just to operate the machines but also the facility . A major factor in these large square footage buildings is HVAC ( Heating , Ventilating and Air Conditioning ).
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There are two major HVAC considerations that will help make data centres perform better . One is sufficient cooling capacity ;
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