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FINAL WORD market – a next generation , green data center solution – has further shaken up how things used to be done .
Indeed , its promise is the wholesale reconstruction of data centers , from overall architecture and management to temperature control and power supply systems . And the results ? Power Usage Effectiveness ( PUE ) that ’ s substantially improved , building truly low carbon and energy saving data centers .
A greener way to build
In contrast to the traditional way that data centers were built before , Huawei ’ s FusionDC has a modular design , with all core subsystems prefabricated in the factory . This means that modules simply have to be assembled on-site , block by block , making construction far faster and far , far easier .
Indeed , with this solution , a high-level data center with 1,000 cabinets can be delivered within just six months , supporting rapid service rollout . Plus , building a prefabricated modular data center involves dramatically reduced waste while the assembly rate ( the proportion of equipment that is prefabricated ) reaches 97 %. In the case of a five-story building area of 8,600 m 2 and 1,500 cabinets with power density of 8kW per cabinet , construction waste is slashed by 80 %. Furthermore , carbon emissions related to construction tumble by 90 %. This truly is a greener way to build data center facilities .
Achieving optimal energy efficiency
A data center ’ s cooling system is its biggest consumer of energy . Indeed , in today ’ s world ,
Data centers are evolving , shifting focus to the additional value they add beyond simple storage .
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