Accra, June 09, GNA – Huawei has revealed the definition of the Next-Generation Data Center Facility and unveiled its new PowerPOD 3.0 data centre power supply system.
The new rollouts, not only reaffirmed Huawei’s commitment to building low-carbon, smart data centres, it also underscores the fact that the next generation of data centres will be sustainable, simplified, autonomous driving, and reliable.
A statement issued in Accra by the Company said with the continuous development of fields such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data, data centres would only grow in scale and importance.
It said but at the same time, there was growing pressure on data centres to use less electricity and operate more sustainably, especially as economies in Africa and other regions look to decarbonize.
The statement said critically, they would have to do so without compromising on performance or drastically increasing their physical footprints.
It said the PowerPOD 3.0 enables data centres to do all these things and it reduced the footprint of data centres by 40 per cent, cuts their energy consumption by 70 per cent, shortens the delivery period from two months to two weeks, and lowers the service level agreement (SLA) fault rate by 38 per cent.
“At Huawei, we are ready and willing to do to contribute to green development in Africa,” Mr Jason Xia Hesheng, President of Huawei Digital Power Southern Africa said.
He said they have a proud tradition of ensuring that all their technologies were sustainable while pushing the boundaries of innovation and it would allow customers to pursue some of the most transformative technologies such as 5G and AI while protecting the planet.
He said Africa in particular stands to benefit from systems such as the PowerPOD 3.0 Energy presents a major challenge in Africa.
The President said data centres consume anywhere between 2 per cent -3 per cent of the world’s power annually.
“This adds an additional strain on African countries’ grids. Additionally, the average annual Power Usage Effectiveness of data centres in Africa is 1.8 meaning that they are not as efficient as they could be something like the PowerPOD 3.0 can go a long way to bringing that score closer to the ideal of 1.0,” he said.
He said the system’s ability to bring down Operation and Maintenance (O&M) costs could also prove significant, given that the initial construction of the data centre accounts for just a third of its costs, with the other two-thirds coming from O&M.
The President said with Africa set to have more than 600-million internet users and 360 million intelligent end-users by 2025, it would be critical that it not just use systems such as PowerPOD 3.0 to make its existing data centres more efficient, but also as a way of embracing the next generation of data centres, characterized by Sustainability, Simplification, Autonomous Driving and Reliability.
He said as Africa looked to balance population growth, urbanization, and the desire to move forward on smart city initiatives with commitments to decarbonize, these kinds of next-generation data centres would be crucial.
“As the ‘heart’ of the data centre, the power supply system should integrate and innovate all devices in the power supply chain,” he added.
GNA