Sustainability With Substance for Your Hyperscale Data Center

Chances are that your hyperscale data center is facing a critical crossroads. Business is booming and capacity is rising, set to triple by 2028 by Synergy Research Group’s forecast¹. Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads are one of the key drivers proving a challenge of hyperscale proportions. Chips – central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) – are becoming more powerful, more power-hungry, and inevitably more heat-producing. This explains why energy and water consumption are on the up. And why we’re seeing legislators from the US to Europe to Asia-Pacific regulating multiple issues, from carbon emissions and power usage effectiveness (PUE) to water consumption and heat reuse.

Hyperscale Data Center Challenges

While these directives are only set to get more stringent, they’re not the only driver for a greener approach to datacenter operations. Communities are more conscious of the impact of datacenters on the environment, and they’re making their opinions known – for example, in Uruguay² and the Netherlands³.

Companies are taking a closer look at their supply chains, and in an effort to comply with guidelines such as those from the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), they’re choosing providers that are transparent and sustainable. Plus, hyperscalers have their own ambitious goals as they strive to be greener while delivering the immense performance requirements of today’s and tomorrow’s data workloads.

Sustainability for the Hyperscale Data Center

In this white paper, we explore the pressures hyperscalers face as enablers of our new world; where sustainability is the Holy Grail, but innovation requires performance at ever-higher levels, pushing resources to the limit and requiring smarter solutions. We cover:

• The impact of datacenters
• The sustainability challenges facing data centres in terms of hardware, energy, water, and heat capture
• The game-changing cooling technologies on offer, including direct liquid cooling (DLC), single-phase immersion cooling, and two-phase immersion cooling

To further explore these themes and see how immersion cooling is a critical component of your sustainable, future-proofed datacenter strategy, download the free white paper by filling in the form!

References

1. Hyperscale Data Center Capacity to Almost Triple in Next Six Years, Driven by AI, Synergy Research Group ↩︎
2. ‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply, The Guardian ↩︎
3. Hyperscale data centres under fire in Holland, Techerati ↩︎