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FIVE-YEAR FORECAST:
HUAWEI PREDICTS 10
TRENDS SHAPING DATA
CENTRE FACILITIES
Yang Bifei, Data Centre Facility Product and Solution Planning
Director at Huawei, gives us the lowdown on data centre
facilities five years from now as we explore the 2025 Huawei
trend forecast.
From 2010 to 2019, the data centre
industry experienced exponential
growth. The move towards hybrid IT
continues as the balance between on-prem
facilities, colocation and the cloud becomes
more pronounced. The rapid development
of new technologies such as Artificial
Intelligence, cloud computing, Big Data and
5G will bring further growth and drive everincreasing
market demand.
To meet this demand, data centres must
solve construction challenges to build at
speed and scale and manage energy usage
and costs in a sustainable way. In addition,
data centres also face many challenges in
terms of architecture flexibility and O&M.
The following trends look at how we meet
this challenge as an industry and drive
towards this future.
1. High density
CPU performance and server capacity will
keep increasing with the evolution of IT
computing capacity. As the demand for AI
applications also increases, the importance
of AI computing power grows in parallel. To
balance efficiency and costs, data centres
will develop with high density in mind.
Currently, the average power capacity in a
data centre is 6 to 8kW/rack. It is anticipated
that power density of 15 to 20kW/rack will
be predominant in data centres by 2025.
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INCREASING
POWER USAGE
EFFECTIVENESS
(PUE) OF DATA
CENTRES AND
BUILDING
SUSTAINABLY IS
IMPERATIVE AND
INEVITABLE.
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