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Views: 118 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-01-18 Origin: Site
The facts show that large data centers will continue to exist and grow, but how and where they are built is changing. The data center industry is now accustomed to continued growth, with its growing market size, skyrocketing power demand and soaring market values.
Pete Jones, chief development officer at Yondr, says, "Ten years ago, data centers with 20 MW of power capacity were huge in terms of scale. And in just a few years, expectations have risen dramatically - 100MW+ data centers are scattered across the US and growing in the Nordic region.
Jones warns, "When starting to scale data centers, there will be a level of complexity that is not just linearly proportional to the growth in their power capacity. The consequences of scaling data centers can be much greater if problems arise - enterprises need a stronger, more committed leadership team to take charge of these projects."
Still, with hyperscale companies having been in the cloud for more than 10 years, Jones notes that "building large-scale data center facilities in isolated locations is still a pretty complex process." He acknowledges that the company has built far fewer hyperscale HyperBlocs (150-300 MW of power capacity) than MetroBlock (40-150 MW of power capacity).
Google's Henry says, "We operate in five data center campuses primarily in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which are all fairly large data centers with power capacities ranging from 32MW to 60MW each. Each data center campus has multiple data center facilities. And there's been some shifts in our strategy - we're now building massive data centers around the world and actually looking to get into the metropolitan markets that we need to get into, and that's happening rapidly. So we're moving our operations from five major data center campuses to metropolitan areas."
Henry explains, "In many places, this starts with a 'foothold' like a data center with about 3MW of power capacity. But we have the ability to scale up because we are now using standardized designs that will start with, for example, a data center facility with 88 MW of electrical capacity and then expand that into a data center campus with four to five more data center facilities in that campus."
Henry says, "We're expanding from small to large, from less to more, so that we can quickly scale up the data center in a given region."
It's a completely different scale that will build an amazing footprint across metropolitan areas and regions. He says, "I can expect that we will be in every country in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at some point."