SINGAPORE: The Global Data Center Facility Summit 2024 was held in Singapore on 17 May 2024 with the theme of ‘Power the Digital Era Forward’, where over 600 data centre industry leaders, technical experts, and ecosystem partners gathered to discuss new trends and opportunities of the global data centre industry in the intelligent computing era.
The attendees also got to experience all-scenario, all-ecosystem, and all-service end-to-end (E2E) solutions, share innovative practices of green data centres in the Asia Pacific and Europe, and experience the exhibition vehicle to unveil the mystery of Outdoor PowerPOD that features one power system per container.
In his opening speech, Huawei Senior Vice President, Charles Yang noted that since ChatGPT ushered in the AI era, large models keep pushing the limits of computing power and the intelligent computing industry is witnessing an unprecedented construction boom.
As predicted, 100GW will be added to the global data centre installed capacity and the market value will exceed US$600 billion (RM2.82 trillion) in the next 5 years.
According to Charles, with opportunities come challenges. The primary challenge concerning the data centre industry is reliability and electricity.
Data centres are scaling up from the MW-level to the GW-level. E2E reliability of data centres is becoming even more important than ever. In response to the opportunities, Huawei will work with customers and partners to expand the industry space.
Steering Data Centres to the AI Era
During the summit, Huawei Data Center Facility & Critical Power Business President, Sun Xiaofeng stated that as AI large models are penetrating, the surging compute demands drive the expansive growth in data centres.
To address the challenges, Huawei strives to build product, service and ecosystem E2E data centre solutions that feature fast deployment, flexible cooling, green energy, and ultimate reliability.
Currently, Huawei’s global service network covers more than 170 countries with over 1,800 professional engineers, providing 24/7 technical support. With N+ flagship service centres, Huawei has built a one-hour service radius for its customers.
The ecosystem is a key part of a win-win future of intelligent computing. Huawei works with partners to develop comprehensive E2E solutions and provide customers with one-stop data centre services.
During the summit, Huawei and the ASEAN Centre for Energy released a white paper on ‘Building Next Generation Data Centre Facility in ASEAN’, providing insights into the status quo, challenges, and trends of data centres in the ASEAN region and emphasising that efficient and energy-saving products and solutions should be applied. It also proposes future-oriented policy recommendations for data centre markets.
In the ecosystem exhibition area, Huawei showcased scenario-based solutions for large-, medium-, and small-sized data centres, and demonstrated data centre consulting, design, integrated development, and delivery capabilities with dozens of ecosystem partners including CIMC, Weichai, CSCEC, and Huashi.
