iCooling + Indirect Evaporative Cooling for Smarter Data Center Cooling

iCooling saves Huawei's cloud data center in Langfang 27.64 million kWh of electricity every year

In data centers, cooling systems consume a huge amount of electricity, second only to service applications, so reducing the power consumption of cooling systems is key to making data centers more energy efficient. Huawei's indirect evaporative cooling system is typical of natural cooling solutions. It fully utilizes natural cooling effects, greatly reducing the power consumption of cooling systems.

Traditional cooling systems were mostly manually adjusted. However, as data center loads and their environments constantly change, manual adjustment can no longer keep up with the rapidly changing heat load. To prevent energy from being wasted, cooling systems need smart brains that can intelligently adjust and deliver cooling as necessary.

Huawei's iCooling solution, which integrates big data and AI, enables data centers to learn to save power and automatically optimize their power efficiency, making on-demand, intelligent cooling a reality. The solution reduces data centers' PUE by 8% to 15%.

This solution is deployed at Huawei's cloud data center in Langfang, where it delivers savings of 27.64 million kWh of electricity every year, or 13,129 tons¹ of CO₂ emissions.