Promoting Safety, Sustainability, and Resilient Infrastructure in Hyperscale Data Centers
Leading hyperscale data centers prioritize more than just growth. To be successful, they must ensure the safety of personnel, equipment, and data, strive for sustainability, and build resilient infrastructure that can withstand disruptions. By leveraging a combination of AI, custom hardware, and continuous innovation, hyperscalers are shaping several important trends in modern data centers. These principles are applicable to data centers of all sizes. Safety and Security Life Safety Systems (With Redundancies) Fully redundant and independently powered safety systems are crucial. At a minimum, each facility should stock smoke detectors, emergency lighting, and fire suppressors. Fire suppression systems should be gas-based, such as those using FM-200 or NOVEC 1230. These […]
Data Center Trends to Watch for the Rest of 2023
Data centers—and the clients who rely on them—exist on the cusp of technological advances. When new technologies emerge, data centers and tech enterprises often adopt them first. With this thought in mind, here is a summary of 2023 trends. Artificial Intelligence (AI) As AI develops, it is revolutionizing the way that major industries operate on a day-to-day basis. These AI solutions will need powerful hardware to operate efficiently. Data centers are preparing for AI to become ubiquitous in expected and unexpected ways, and are planning now to be able to support multiple high-resource AI solutions at a time. Interestingly, AI is playing a more prominent role in data center operations […]
