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Data Centres
Embrace the new power landscape
LEFT: There are more opportunities to shift loads to low cost, environmentally friendly power sources.
flat while data processing demand has contin- ued to accelerate.
“Building on this momentum, several ap- proaches in development are in different phases of testing and implementation that promises to minimise costs and reduce carbon emissions while enabling the data centre to achieve its crit- ical availability goals,” he said.
To meet the goals and objectives of both in- dustries, Guidehouse Insights recommends that data centres actively embrace the evolv- ing power environment.
“IT solutions vendors should build interfaces and then partnerships, while utilities should partner with data centres within their territory,” Hughes said.
The report, Data Centers: Anticipating Changes in the Power Ecosystem, discusses how organizations shifting processing loads to the cloud are using new strategies to maintain posi- tive trends.
This report reviews data centre approaches to changes in the power ecosystem and presents the benefits and challenges of these efforts.
Successful integration of innovative new tech- nology shows promise for stakeholders and has the potential to enable lower costs for both data centres and the power value chain by shifting loads to low cost and more environmentally friendly power sources.
A NEW REPORT from Guidehouse Insights examines power industry innovations ex- pected to lower the costs and emissions as- sociated with data centres while increasing IT reliability.
Data centres source most of their power through the local power grid. The utility pro- vides a connection and data centres draw power as needed and then pay bills based on a fixed price.
However, recent changes, pioneered by the largest facilities – called hyperscale data centres – can lead to lower costs, higher reliability, and lower emissions.
These changes include technology and pric-
ing options among utilities, new support sys- tems used by data centres, and services offered by utilities.
Principal research analyst at Guidehouse In- sights, William Hughes, said the data processing industry has made great progress in managing power usage since 2010 keeping power demand
“THE REPORT RECOMMENDS SHIFTING PROCESSING LOADS TO THE CLOUD.”
Top five technology trends
CCN PROVIDES A SNAPSHOT OF THE TOP FIVE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS SHAPING THE DATA CENTRE MARKET.
1Robotics and automation will take over data centre monitoring and main- tenance. Automation means schedul- ing, monitoring, maintenance and applica- tion delivery can be executed without human intervention.
2Consumers will increasingly buy data centre solutions utilising a pay-per-use model. The world’s market leaders in servers, storage and hyperconverged infra- structure are fundamentally changing their sales model to enable businesses to buy data centre products in a new way, while at the same time looking to win back market share from public cloud providers.
3Record spending has been driving the data centre market to accommodate massive growth in data. The number of large data centres operated by hy-
perscale providers like AWS, Mi-
crosoft and Google continues to
increase. The past year has seen
record data centre spending. Mi-
crosoft plans to build 50 to 100
new data centres each year in- cluding a hyperscale data cen- tre in Malaysia.
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Data centre cooling today is dominated by sustainable solutions,
these include liquid cooling and under-
There is significant demand for edge com- puting in 2021 which is being driven by AI,
Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G.
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