What do you need to know about designing data centers?

摘要

CSE: What are some current trends in data centers? Bill Kosik: According to the Jones Lang LaSalle study H1 2022 Global Data Center Outlook, starting in 2017, hyperscale data centers nearly doubled electricity consumption to 87 terawatt-hours, while traditional data centers halved electricity consumption to 33 terawatt-hours. Because hyperscale data centers have a much higher information technology power densi- ty (watts per square foot) than traditional enterprise data centers, a single data center can be designed with an IT load of dozens of megawatts in the same footprint. In 2010, the global energy demand for hyperscale and cloud data centers was 13% and for traditional data centers 87%. By 2022, global energy demand for traditional data centers was projected to be 23% with cloud and hyperscale data centers making up 77%.