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2022: Green is the color of data centers.
2022-05-17
In 2020 alone, each person generated roughly 1.7 MB of data per second. Most importantly, as much as 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the past two years. In short, energy consumption by data centers and IT systems will only continue to rise—ultimately accelerating the development of green data centers.
Vertiv, a global provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, also highlighted in its recently released annual list of key data center trends to watch for 2022 a significant acceleration in actions aimed at addressing sustainability and the climate crisis. “As we enter 2022, data center operators and vendors will be actively seeking strategies that can make a real impact in tackling the climate crisis,” said Rob Johnson, CEO of Vertiv.
Now, let’s take a look at the data center trends that experts have highlighted as likely to emerge in 2022 and beyond.
Green Data Centers: Addressing Sustainability and the Climate Crisis
According to Vertiv, the data center industry has been moving toward more climate-friendly practices in recent years, but operators will increasingly and deliberately join the climate effort in 2022. On the operational front, Vertiv experts predict that some organizations will adopt sustainable energy strategies, leveraging digital solutions to match energy consumption with 100% renewable energy sources and ultimately operating on a 24/7 sustainable energy basis.
“This hybrid distributed energy system can simultaneously provide both AC and DC power, offering additional options for enhancing efficiency and ultimately enabling data centers to operate on a carbon-free basis. Fuel cells, renewable energy assets, and long-duration energy storage systems—including battery energy storage systems (BESS) and lithium-ion batteries*—will all play a critical role in delivering sustainable, resilient, and reliable outcomes,” the report added.
In the area of lithium-ion batteries, Vertiv experts anticipate that lithium battery recycling infrastructure will expand in 2022, thereby removing one of the few remaining barriers to the widespread adoption of lithium-ion batteries in data centers. Vertiv predicts that, in the more immediate future, extreme weather events linked to climate change will influence decisions about where and how to build new data centers and telecommunications networks.
“Other factors—including grid reliability and affordability, regional temperatures, the availability of water and renewable energy sources, as well as locally generated sustainable energy, and regulations that impose rationing and restrictions on the amount of electricity utilities can supply to data centers—also play a role in decision-making—and the same is true for manufacturing,” it added.
Artificial intelligence in data centers is becoming real.
Given that today’s networks are becoming increasingly complex and decentralized, the demand for real-time computing and decision-making is growing ever more critical. Most importantly, the need for augmented virtual worlds and virtual reality is also becoming increasingly prominent.
“This real-time demand is highly sensitive to latency, and under the increasingly prevalent hybrid model—where enterprises, public clouds, private clouds, hosted environments, and edge computing all coexist—full-time manual management, even if not impossible, would be impractical,” the report notes.
In other words, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are crucial for optimizing the performance of these networks, Vertiv says. “Collecting the right data, building the right models, and training network platforms to make the right decisions all require focus and time.”
The report states that, given the availability of AI hardware from existing vendors, identical cloud options, streamlined toolchains, and a strong educational focus on data science, even smaller companies are embracing AI. Vertiv points out: “All of this has accelerated AI adoption in 2022.”
Post-pandemic data centers will take center stage.
According to Vertiv’s data, approximately 29 gigawatts of new data centers are currently under construction worldwide. “These data centers will be the first ones specifically built to meet the demands of the post-COVID-19 era. More activity will shift toward the edge, and VMware forecasts that workload distribution there will undergo a dramatic transformation—from the current 5% to 30% over the next five years,” it added.
Although availability will remain a top priority, Vertiv points out that the demand for reduced latency is steadily growing to support healthy buildings, smart cities, distributed energy systems, and 5G. The report concludes: “(Overall), in 2022, we will step up our investments in cutting-edge technologies to underpin this new normal—characterized by remote work, increasing reliance on e-commerce and telemedicine, and video streaming—and continue to roll out 5G.”
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