Intelligent World 2030

Data Center 2030

New data centers that are diverse, ubiquitous, secure, and smart, and support zero carbon, energy saving, flexible resources, peer-to-peer, and SysMoore interconnection will become the direction of industry development.

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Indicator prediction

Continuous innovation in computing power supply and breakthroughs in challenging resource constraints will become the main theme of data center development in the future

The effective AI computing power provided by a single cluster is expected to reach 100 EFLOPS

All-flash storage is expected to account for 80% at data centers

The automation level of industry-leading data centers is expected to reach L4

The green power usage of large data centers is expected to reach 100%

Function-level computing, storage, and network resource allocation is expected to be possible in leading cloud data centers

The penetration rate of hyper-converged Ethernet in data centers is expected to reach 80%

Key features

Improve the overall efficiency of data centers through systematic innovation, maximize the scissors difference between computing power supply and resource constraints, and accelerate towards an intelligent world

Diverse and ubiquitous

Big clusters: construction from a single server to a cabinet; O&M from a single server to a cluster or even the entire data center
Lightweight edges: from the center to the edge, meeting low-latency service processing and data security requirements of various industries
New patterns: construction of underwater data centers and space data centers to meet various application scenarios

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Secure and intelligent

High security: new security ecosystem in the era of trusted computing, confidential computing, and AI foundation models
High reliability: cross-domain high reliability in a larger scope and service-level high reliability that focuses on service continuity
High intelligence: AI and data enabling the full lifecycle of data center planning, construction, and operation

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Zero carbon and energy saving

Green power supply: wind power, solar power, and hydropower, and dynamic microgrid
New energy storage: from direct power supply to power grid + energy storage system
Liquid cooling: full liquid cooling and air-liquid hybrid cooling for low carbon throughout the lifecycle, achieving an optimal PUE

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Flexible resources

Full pooling: application-centric; pooling of computing, transport, and storage resources
Flexible computing: providing flexible computing services based on utilization and QoS; shortening the computing lease term from days to hours or minutes
Ubiquitous collaboration: from a single region to cross-region synergy

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Peer-to-peer interconnection

Hyper-convergence: multiple computing buses and network technologies converged and unified to implement heterogeneous peer-to-peer passthrough
High performance: innovative design of next-generation high-performance computing data centers based on the high-speed peer-to-peer interconnection architecture
Optical-intrinsic: all-optical interconnection within data centers

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SysMoore

New computing power: exploring new computing paradigms such as analog computing and non-silicon-based computing
New storage: diversified storage media and data-centric architecture

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