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Hot Topics • Data Center || New Challenges and Opportunities in the Big Data Era

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2025-03-17

With the popularization of artificial intelligence and big data, the status of data centers in various industries is gradually rising. Data centers are crucial for the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of enterprises. Driven by big data, the application scenarios of data centers are becoming increasingly diversified, while energy efficiency upgrades, green data centers, modular design, and renewable energy applications are becoming key trends. Currently, data centers are developing in depth towards intelligent operation and maintenance, computing power network integration, and strengthening green security. These changes will bring disruptive challenges and new opportunities to the construction of data centers, electricity demand, water resource consumption, power supply and distribution, and cooling technology and architecture.

With the popularization of artificial intelligence and big data, the status of data centers in various industries is gradually rising, and data centers are crucial for the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of enterprises. Driven by big data, the application scenarios of data centers are becoming increasingly diversified, andenergy efficiency upgrades, green data centers, modular design, and the application of renewable energy are becoming key trends. Currently, data centers are moving towards intelligent operation and maintenance, the integration of computing power networks, andthe strengthening of green securitydeep development. These changes will bring disruptive challenges and new opportunities to the construction of data centers,power demandwater resource consumption, power supply and distribution, and cooling technology and architecture.

Simply put, a data center is a super-large computer room that houses a large number of computers and data communication equipment, with supporting systems such as cooling, security, and operation and maintenance. It is an important part of the computing power infrastructure, and it is the data center and computing power carrier that promotes the development of new-generation digital technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. IT equipment,power equipmentDCIM, and environmental monitoring systems are important supporting systems in the upstream industrial chain of the data center industry.

Current Status of Data Center Industry Development ⇒

♦ Global Market Size

With the development and application of information technologies such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, the global market size of data centers is constantly expanding. According to the "2025-2030 China Data Center Construction Market Demand Forecast and Development Trend Prospect Report" released by the China Business Industry Research Institute, the global data center market size in 2023 was approximately US$82.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.04%, and approximately US$90.4 billion in 2024. Analysts at the China Business Industry Research Institute predict thatthe global data center market size will reach US$96.8 billion in 2025.

♦ China Market Size

Driven by national policies such as "New Infrastructure," digital transformation, and the vision of a digital China, the market size of data centers in China has continued to grow rapidly. According to the "2025-2030 China Data Center Construction Market Demand Forecast and Development Trend Prospect Report" released by the China Business Industry Research Institute, the market size of data centers in China in 2023 was approximately 240.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.68%, and approximately 277.3 billion yuan in 2024. Analysts at the China Business Industry Research Institute predict thatthe market size of data centers in China will reach 318 billion yuan in 2025.

♦ Operating Costs

In the operating costs of data centers in China,power costs, depreciation, and rent occupy the top three positionswith proportions of 56.7%, 25.6%, and 7.7%, respectively; labor costs and equipment leasing account for 3.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

Challenges for the Power Industry ⇒

♦ Artificial Intelligence Leads to Explosive Growth in Demand

According to TD Cowen's research, in just 90 days of 2023, the total amount of data center leases signed by US end-users soared to a remarkable 2.1 gigawatts. This figure accounts for nearly one-fifth of the entire US third-party data center market.By 2030, data center capacity is expected to more than double, and artificial intelligence may further drive a significant increase in data center demand, causing data center capacity demand to increase far beyond this figure (according to Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, artificial intelligence will drive data center demand growth by 100 times in the next 10 years).

At the same time, artificial intelligence is pushing data center density to unprecedented levels. AI racks can consume as much as 50 to 100 kilowatts of power, while traditional enterprise workloads only require 5 to 10 kilowatts. This means that the power and cooling capacity per square foot of data centers must be significantly increased to meet the needs of artificial intelligence.

♦ Increasingly Tense Power Supply

In the United States and Europe, the problem of power restrictions is becoming increasingly serious, as the growth rate of electricity demand from industries such as data centers far exceeds the growth rate of electricity supply facilities. In many markets, the interconnection of power facilities at data center sites may take several years. In Northern Virginia, the world's largest data center hub, developers face significant new power connection challenges due to years of backlog. In Dublin, power shortages are hindering the development of new data centers.

New Opportunities for the New Power Industry ⇒

With increasing global concern about environmental issues,green, safe, and energy-efficienthave become important trends in the development of data centers. Data centers need to adopt effective energy-saving measures to reduce carbon emissions to meet the requirements of sustainable development. Data center operators, utility companies, and policymakers need to work closely together to overcome these challenges.

The construction of data centers requires a large amount of electricity resources. Improving the green energy utilization rate of data center clusters can only help achieve the goal of "carbon neutrality and carbon peak" and promote the green development of the computing power economy on the basis of a new power system.Senke has rich experience in building uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and energy storage solutions for data centers, and with its excellent safety performance and high-rate discharge advantages, it is widely used in data centers, smart grids, and other occasions with high safety requirements.

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