Data Centers of the Future
Lead the way in the ever-changing, ever-growing data center market
Data centers must scale to meet the demand of digital lifestyles and more intelligent buildings and industry. This demand is driving a hybrid data center architecture of centralized, regional, and local edge. To survive and grow, you will need to leverage the power of connected infrastructure for a more sustainable, efficient, adaptive, and resilient data center.
50%
increase in electrical footprint of all data centers by 20251
500%
growth in global data generated by 20252
24%
of executives report that over 50% of their data centers will be self-configuring by 20253
75%
of data will be processed at the edge by 20254
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Animal Logic
Digital movie magicCreating award-winning effects outside of Hollywood is a bold idea. Schneider Electric installed a ready-made data center in less than five months for Animal Logic and now they make digital movie magic with EcoStruxure IT.
Green Mountain
A sustainable data centerUsing cold fjord water to cool a data center deep within a mountain is a bold idea. With EcoStruxure IT, Green Mountain innovates data center cooling to support the critical uptime needs of its customers, operating one of the most sustainable data centers in the world.
Digital Realty
Where growth meets 24/7 reliabilityThrough the monitoring and reporting of EcoStruxure, Digital Realty can provide the scalability that clients require in the face of modern market demands.
Build a sustainable future
Meet business needs responsibly, without compromising the future.
Set a bold actionable strategy
Establish a holistic, data-driven sustainability strategy with measurable targets to minimize environmental impacts.
Explore moreImplement sustainable data center designs
Reduce energy consumption and improve sustainability with efficient data center cooling solutions.
Explore our cooling solutionsDrive sustainability in operations
Leverage data and digitalization to drive efficiency and optimize performance across your data center infrastructure.
Discover morePurchase renewable energy
Leverage our unparalleled expertise and trusted global reputation to help you find the best renewable energy projects and cleantech products at the best price.
Learn howDecarbonize supply chains
Employ an active energy management and sustainability strategy by breaking down silos to achieve your corporate carbon goals.
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Maximize data center efficiency
Optimize cost, speed, and capital to increase return on investment.
High-density IT spaces
Maximize IT space by utilizing high-density infrastructure solutions such as pod data centers.
Find out howHighest efficiency designs
Benefit from efficiency optimized data center reference designs.
Read howStreamlined processes
Digitize processes at any point in the lifecycle from planning to operation covering all data center domains.
Learn moreDigital Services
Combine cloud-enabled remote monitoring service with real-time data to troubleshoot and dispatch help.
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Benefit from an adaptive data center
Designed to adopt new technologies.
Flexibility in design and deployment
Reduce deployment time by 50% with prefabricated modules, which provide simple and easy-to-deploy data center infrastructure for any application.
Read moreCompatible with future IT needs
Ensure that data center physical equipment, cooling, and power are compatible with advances in IT servers, the scale of new workloads, and storage demands.
Read the blogWorkload and application portability
Identify and relocate workloads based on power and cooling profiles and cost of power or energy sources in different geographies.
Discover EcoStruxure IT AdvisorActive energy management
Interact with energy and sustainability experts and learn how to turn energy into a controllable spend, increase efficiency, and meet sustainability goals.
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Ensure resiliency of your data center infrastructure
Reduce vulnerability to unplanned downtime.
Reliable power and cooling
Improve reliability with integrated medium voltage, low voltage, and uninterruptible power supply and cooling solutions that can be configured to provide redundancy.
Remote management
Minimize downtime and improve resiliency with next-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions.
Read the blogComprehensive predictive analysis
Leverage big data to gain insights into the current and future state of your distributed IT environment.
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Sources
1 Nature, How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity
2 Uptime Institute, 2019 Annual Data Center Survey Results
3 Global Market Insights, Inc, Software-defined Data Center Market Revenue to Hit USD 235 Bn by 2026
4 DataCenter Knowledge, Uptime's Data Center Survey Shows Increased Downtime and More Efficient Power Use
1. What are data center services?
A data center is an essential component that plays a vital role in the smooth functioning of any organization. Therefore, it is crucial to seek data center services from a source with expertise in hardware, software, personnel, and processes to maintain a data center. Schneider Electric provides solutions on multiple fronts like high-density infrastructure, robust software, digital services, high-efficiency designs, etc. A team of efficient professionals delivers quality services that substantially contribute to a data center's longevity.
2. What is a sustainable data center?
A sustainable data center is also known as a green data center; it focuses on energy efficiency and has minimal impact on the environment. The central objective of a sustainable data center is to improve the reduction of energy demand continually. Schneider Electric offers a wide range of solutions like carbon strategy consulting, circular principles for preserving resources and CO2 emissions, and resource-efficient data center designs to elevate the overall data center sustainability.
3. How can data centers be more sustainable?
As the world grows more environmentally aware, there is an increased demand for better data center planning. A data center is a vital component present in every organization; it is primarily responsible for heavy data and application storage. There are multiple ways to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions and make a data center more sustainable. Schneider Electric focuses on energy-saving technologies that ensure minimal emission of greenhouse gases. In addition to the wide range of services, we also set up a hybrid data center that reduces electrical power generation by utilizing virtualization and software networking. It significantly improves the cutback of its environmental demand, making the data center more sustainable for a brighter and healthier future.