There is a race for the construction of data centers to support the requirements for computer technology and high density and Cyrusone helps to redefine the scalable design of the Inteliscale data center, its modular approach to support greater workload.
“Intelliscale has been designed with adaptability at its core,” Cyrusone said when he launched his offer in July, “building infrastructure, which can evolve with your needs without starting from scratch or face expensive downtime.”
Regarding the density of the stand, the workload AI will require eight times the force of the normal cloud work load up to 120 kW/stands, compared to the 15W/stand, according to the Dell’oro Group. Since the Intelliscale data centers potentially occupy only a quarter of the space of typical data centers (depending on application and needs), it is designed for this extreme dense deployment and is able to provide 100 or more megawatts of strength, offer scalability, flexibility and reliability. Tom Kingham, Vice President for Engineering and Utility, Europe in Cyrusone, believes that data centers must work today and be flexible enough to meet future requirements.
“We are not trying to reconsider AI completely,” Kingham says. “We are trying to get to this modular element, where we just put more depending on what is the case for the customer in these data centers.”
Since data centers have been set up for years and GPUs come in months, the timelines often do not add up. “We had to come up with a way to respond quickly to customer requirements without necessarily changing the backbone of the device that was happening,” Kingham notes. “So from Intelliscale you can see that the modular access to the data center.”
Kingham notes the “excitement” of the cooling of the liquid for the GPU. Since the calculation density is much larger for the AI infrastructure, operating temperatures may be much higher. “This is becoming interesting because we need less cooling to do this work; therefore we need less energy,” he says. “Therefore, for the data center industry is a really good development that will reduce the impact we have.”
“The demand is so significant that the total amount of energy we will use will grow, but hopefully we are becoming much more effective with this growth,” Kingham says.
Along with Kingham’s energy efficiency, the industry says that industry is improving in the community. Local generation schemes are a good example; In June, Cyrusone signed the first partnership agreement with E.ON in the industry aimed at ensuring the energy and cooling of the data center and heating the surrounding buildings of the campus at the same time. “It’s not just for a data center,” says Kingham. “It should be for everyone around.”
“What we now see through our development processes, because we find new sites and want to evolve in certain places, we are much more transparent about where our energy will come from,” Kingham says.
“I look at the project we have in Frankfurt when the data center provides all heat to the trading park,” he adds. “I think this is a kind of example where we really want to do the right thing as a branch. But when a data center appears where there is no such situation where you can get your heat to the local network, because this network does not exist, it’s difficult.”
“Now we are looking for those places where we can be a much better member of the community if you want where we can provide heat to other local consumers.”
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