[Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2024] During MWC Barcelona 2024, Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Global Data Center Facility, Huawei Digital Power, delivered a keynote speech on "SmartDC, Power the Intelligent Computing Era Forward " at Huawei Global Digital Power Forum 2024.
Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Global Data Center Facility, Huawei Digital Power
According to Sanjay, the surging intelligent computing power brings us into new era and create huge demand of data center. It raises higher requirements for reliability, density, evolution and TTM. In response to these, Huawei SmartDC, with approach of converged power, distributed cooling and prefabricated modular deployment, innovatively builds the green, simple, smart, and reliable (GSSR) large data center as strong computing infrastructure to facilitate the energy transition for greener operators, as part of its efforts to power the digital era forward.
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Integrated power system: The power system adopts an integrated design in ways that the power is supplied in one row and 18 cabinets are cut into 10 cabinets, reducing the footprint by 30%. In S-ECO mode, the full-link efficiency increases from 95.4% to 98.4%, achieving a 70% lower loss. The iPower intelligent feature makes real that the full link is visible, manageable, and controllable. Through functions such as AI-based temperature prediction, assess circuit breaker health and set circuit breaker parameters in real time, the SLA failure rate drops by 38%. On top of that, the lifespan of key components including fans and capacitors can be predicted one year in advance. This facilitates the shift from passive response to AI predictive maintenance, building a full-link efficient and reliable integrated power system.
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Distributed cooling system: The cooling system maximizes the use of free cooling sources and requires only one heat exchange to save water and electricity, achieving a PUE down to 1.15 and a WUE as low as 0.6 (Ireland). The distributed architecture and redundancy design ensure smaller fault domain. That is, the failure of equipment does not affect the overall system running. The system availability reaches 99.9999%, achieving uninterrupted cooling. For intelligent computing scenarios, the future-oriented air-liquid converged architecture is supported to meet smooth service upgrade needs.
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Prefabricated deployment: Huawei's outdoor PowerPOD integrates ultra-high-density UPSs, highly safe lithium batteries, and container with excellent physical protection performance to build a reliable prefabricated power supply and distribution solution that features the fusion of cooling and power systems. Owing to the fully decoupled architecture of electromechanical engineering, the power system does not occupy the floor area, which maximizes computing space, thereby meeting high-density requirements for future evolution. The solution is prefabricated and pre-commissioned in the factory and can be put into operation upon onsite connection. The delivery period is shortened by over 40%, meeting the requirements for fast delivery and flexible capacity expansion. High-quality delivery is ensured through productized engineering, modular design, standardized manufacturing techniques, and quality control.
Going forward, Huawei Data Center Facility will continue to innovate and provide industry-leading data center products and solutions to help customers and partners build green and reliable infrastructure in the intelligent computing era, as part of its efforts to power the digital era forward.
