Huawei held the Global Data Center Facility Forum 2022, with the theme of 
"Smart DC, Building the Future", on April 26 in Monaco to drive sustainability 
in the data center industry. The conference convened more than 200 business 
leaders, industry experts, clients, and partners from around the world to 
establish valuable connections and discuss key issues facing the rapidly 
changing industry, such as decarbonization and digitalization.

Charles Yang, Senior Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Data Center 
Facility Team, said in his opening remarks that as we enter the intelligent era 
and carbon neutrality has become the global shared mission, data centers will 
see changes in the service form, energy supply, and operation and maintenance 
models. Huawei Data Centre Facility Team will embrace the changes by optimizing 
organizational structure, continuously investing in innovation, and building a 
healthy business ecosystem to drive the sustainable development of the data 
center industry.

Green data centers play a critical role in achieving net-zero goals. In pursuit 
of green and low-carbon data centers, Huawei believes that data center 
facilities need to go green throughout the life cycle. It means the facility 
features a green construction with a prefabricated modular architecture, a 
green cooling solution to lower PUE, a green power supply with ultra-high power 
density, and AI-enabled green management.

When it comes to the role of green ICT playing in Europe's path to 
decarbonization, He Bo, President of Huawei Digital Power Western Europe, 
pointed out that low-carbon ICT infrastructure, such as data centers, will play 
an important role to support for Europe to achieve the goal of "Carbon 
Neutrality by 2050" in the future. By integrating digital and power electronics 
technologies, Huawei provides innovative solutions such as fast delivery, 
extreme PUE, and centralized energy storage to create low-carbon data centers 
and contribute to a greener world.

In his keynote on Next-Generation DC, Sanjay Kumar Sainani, Global Senior Vice 
President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Huawei Data Center Business 
noted that we envision the next generation center to be converged, low carbon, 
and smart. Four innovations - Bit innovation, Watt innovation, Heat innovation, 
and Architecture innovation - will support future-oriented, sustainable data 
centers.

Other industry experts also shared their insights into how to power the green 
and digital transition of the data center industry at the event. Simon 
McCormick, CTO of Echelon, introduced their digital transformation path towards 
carbon neutrality.

Kim Gunnelius, COO and Co-founder at Ficolo, talked about operating data 
centers with 100% green power and lower PUE, and enabling the industry to 
reduce its carbon footprint through data centers.

Xavier Matagne, CTO of Africa Data Centres, highlighted that modular and 
prefabricated construction excels at high quality, easy site management, low 
risk, and green site operation compared with traditional solutions.

Prescott Augustus GAYLORD, Senior Vice President and Head of Sustainability at 
DBS, shared practices in achieving decarbonization and digitalization from a 
financial institution perspective.

Highlights at Datacloud Global Congress 2022

Huawei Digital Power showcased low-carbon, smart data center solutions and 
joined conversations around the trends that will shape the data center industry 
at Datacloud Global Congress 2022, the leading event in the data center and ICT 
sectors that was held in Monaco from 25-27 April. 

Huawei exhibited the low-carbon, smart data center solutions at the booth, 
including the PowerPod+Smart Li power supply system for improved energy 
efficiency, the indirect evaporative cooling solution for the minimized use of 
potable water, and the smart modular DC for fast deployment and flexible 
scalability.

Reducing the carbon footprint of power-consuming data centers holds the key to 
mitigating climate change. Huawei has officially joined the IMasons Climate 
Accord (ICA), a coalition designed to govern a methodology to measure and 
reduce the carbon in infrastructure through products, power, and materials, to 
highlight its commitment to a low carbon, smart society.

Moving forward, Huawei will cooperate closely with partners such as consulting, 
design, engineering companies, and suppliers, to build an open and win-win 
industrial ecosystem and promote the sustainable development of the data center 
industry.

SOURCE:  Huawei

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