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Sanjay Kumar Sainani , Global SVP & CTO Data
Centre Business Unit , Huawei building a prefabricated modular data centre involves dramatically reduced waste and while the assembly rate ( 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 .
Achieving optimal energy efficiency
A data centre ’ s cooling system is its biggest consumer of energy . Indeed , in today ’ s world , traditional chilled water solutions have unacceptably high energy needs , not to mention frustratingly complex architectures . Instead , Huawei FusionDC uses indirect evaporative cooling to maximise natural sources of cooling , effectively improving PUE . In addition , as an innovative leader in data centre energy , Huawei applies Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) technologies to data centre operations , cloud-edge collaboration , cloud model training and local high-performance policy execution .
In a particular 1,500-cabinet data centre currently in operation in China Beijing , with power density of 8 kW per cabinet and a load rate of 50 %, Huawei ’ s indirect evaporative cooling solution cuts electricity consumption by 32 % and water consumption by 33 %, compared to a chilled water solution .
Elsewhere , the power supply system uses full-chain converged power modules and Huawei SmartLi intelligent lithium batteries to deliver high efficiency and power density . With distributed components and a converged power supply , the physical space required for the power distribution system is cut by 40 %, with system efficiency reaching up to 97.5 %, compared to a traditional solution .
Optimising energy efficiency in realtime through intelligent O & M
Converged intelligent features enable End to End ( E2E ) predictive maintenance and E2E optimisation of resource utilisation as well as energy efficiency and Operations and Maintenance ( O & M ). This is a full-lifecycle experience and , in energy operations , an autonomous driving data centre .
Energy conservation and sustainable development are now key drivers of the data centre industry ’ s development . Huawei FusionDC provides a green data centre solution , one that has already been widely adopted around the world .
In the future , Huawei will continue to innovate and help enterprises achieve carbon neutrality by building more energy efficient , low carbon data centres , that foster business success but not – quite literally – at the cost of the planet . p
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