Strategic and tactical planning of sustainable development path

With the rapid growth of computing power demand and the continuous improvement of power density, how to improve the market matching degree of data centers, achieve energy conservation and consumption reduction, and achieve sustainable development has become an urgent problem for the industry. Lin Mi believes that data center operators should plan sustainable development paths from two dimensions: strategy and tactics.

8241-956 At the strategic level, enterprises need to formulate feasible sustainable development goals based on their actual situation. For emerging enterprise data centers, goals can be set around PUE and WUE.

At the tactical level, companies need to identify specific ways to achieve sustainability, including green energy purchases, efficient design, carbon footprint data collection, and continuous monitoring to optimize sustainability status.

8241-956 As an industry-leading demonstration company, Digital Realty is committed to providing industry-leading data center solutions that improve energy productivity, resource efficiency, reduce cost of ownership, and improve customer value based on a series of sustainable development goals. Improving resource efficiency across multiple sectors, including energy, water, waste and carbon emissions; Keep stakeholders regularly informed of performance.

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For example, in the design and construction of data centers, Digital Realty actively practices sustainability through a number of specific initiatives. These include compact multistory structures, recyclable building materials, water-free cooling systems, rainwater harvesting systems, increased use of non-potable water, and healthy interior space materials and finishes. Currently, 32% of its managed operations portfolio is certified to one or more global sustainable building standards.

8241-956 Starting from the overall planning and top-level design, Capital Online implements low carbon and energy saving in the whole ecological industry chain of data center construction, operation and sales. In the early stage of design, Capital Online pays attention to equipment selection and market matching, adopts energy-saving products, and realizes waste heat recovery and reuse; In the process of operation, the implementation of fine management to enhance the energy saving consciousness of every operator.

“In the Wuhu project, we made a lot of investment in solar and photovoltaic technology, and introduced liquid cooling technology; In Beijing, in cooperation with the machine room heating company and property management, the waste heat recovery was successfully implemented; The dual-system cooling solution implemented in Huailai is based on natural cooling technology, which can achieve energy saving effects below 20 degrees Celsius.” Lee Kuan Yew introduced.

Wang Yuntao pointed out that there are still some problems worth paying attention to in the sustainable construction of data centers, and there are still difficult storage, transmission and instability of green energy, especially in the eastern region with large power consumption, and more scarce resources. In addition, despite the increasing demand for artificial intelligence-driven intelligent computing, the layout of data centers is still dominated by general computing, and how to further improve the proportion of intelligent computing and balance the supply of computing power is still a problem that needs to be solved in the future.