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Sanjay Kumar Sainani , Global SVP & CTO , Data
Centre Business Unit , Huawei 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 toward 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 built before , 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 ( 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
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