PR95456

SHENZHEN, China, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Huawei Digital Power held the Next-Generation Data Center Facility Seminar on

April 12, 2022. The event brought together nearly 200 technical experts from

Colo, large enterprises, carriers, consulting firms, and research institutions

across the globe to exchange ideas on three key topics, such as the definition

of next-generation data centers, innovative power and cooling solutions, and

how to achieve data center facility automation.

Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Data Center

Facility, said in his opening remarks "As carbon neutrality becomes a global

consensus and the digital economy expands, the data center industry is facing

the challenges of high energy consumption, huge carbon footprint, difficult

operation and maintenance and low reliability. In response to these challenges,

data centers will have to embrace changes in the service form, its role in

energy supply, and operation and maintenance models. Huawei will conduct

in-depth discussions with customers and industry players to grasp market trends

timely and jointly promote the green and sustainable development of the

industry through continuous innovation and investment."

Topic 1: How to define the next-generation data center facility

Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Global Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

(CTO) of Huawei Data Center Business, suggested that with the skyrocketing

growth of data volume and computing power, the next-generation data center will

evolve toward a green and low-carbon design, elastic capacity expansion, rapid

deployment, modular, simplified architecture, and sustainability.

Industry experts at the event reached a consensus on key performance indicators

for data centers of the future: In addition to the extensively used Power Usage

Effectiveness (PUE), other key metrics, including Carbon Usage Effectiveness

(CUE), Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), Space Usage Effectiveness (SUE), Grid

Usage Effectiveness (GUE) and lower life-cycle pollutant emissions, will also

affect the future of the industry. The next-generation data center facility

features high renewable energy utilization, high energy efficiency, high

reliability, and highly intelligent management.

Topic 2: Power and cooling technology innovations for next-generation data

center facilities

The power supply and cooling systems are key parts of data center facilities.

Experts at the meeting believed that the next-generation data center facilities

will adopt the ultra-simplified power supply architecture, the lithium-ion

battery, natural cooling, and liquid cooling. Given that renewables will become

the dominant source of energy, the development of low-carbon data centers with

"Generation-Grid-Load-Storage" Synergy will be the mainstream direction. In

addition, with the development of heat recovery technologies and policies, data

centers are expected to transform from energy-consuming centers to

energy-supply centers.

Topic 3: How to achieve data center facility automation

Finally, when it comes to data center facility management, experts said digital

technologies would be further integrated with power supply and cooling systems

to facilitate predictive maintenance, resulting in improved system reliability.

Intelligent technologies are also leveraged to optimize energy efficiency for

the ultimate PUE. In the era of carbon regulations, digital twin technologies

will help data centers achieve visualized and accurate carbon management

throughout their lifecycle.

Collective intelligence is pooled to illuminate the future of data center

facilities. Fei Zhenfu, CTO of Huawei Data Center Facility, concluded that

Huawei would continue to make breakthroughs in data center facility solutions,

join hands with partners to build an open and win-win ecosystem, and jointly

usher in the next generation of data center facilities.

Source: Huawei

Image Attachments Links:

   Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=419084