This year, CCTV News reported on the progress of the “Eastern Counting and Western Counting” project. Up to now, the construction of 8 national computing power hub nodes of the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, etc.) has all started. The “number in the east and calculate in the west” project has entered the comprehensive construction stage from the system layout.
It is understood that since the launch of the “Eastern Countries and Western Countries” project, China’s new investment has exceeded 400 billion yuan. During the entire “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the cumulative investment in all aspects will exceed 3 trillion yuan.
Among the eight national computing power hubs that have started construction, nearly 70 new data center projects have been started this year. Among them, the construction scale of new data centers in the west exceeds 600,000 racks, doubling year-on-year. At this point, the national computing power network architecture has been initially formed.
The "Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of New Data Centers (2021-2023)" mentioned that new data centers have the characteristics of high technology, high computing power, high energy efficiency, and high security. This requires comprehensive innovation and optimization of data centers in planning and design, construction, operation and maintenance, and energy utilization to achieve the goals of high efficiency, energy saving, safety and reliability.
As the carrier of network, server and other equipment in the data center computer room, the cabinet is a rigid demand product for data center construction and an important part of the construction of new data centers.
When it comes to cabinets, it may receive little attention from the public, but servers, storage, switching and security equipment in data centers all need to be placed in cabinets, which provide basic services such as power and cooling.
According to IDC data, according to statistics in 2021, China's accelerated server market is expected to reach US$10.86 billion by 2025, and will still be in a medium-to-high growth period in 2023, with a growth rate of approximately 20%.
As the demand for IDC increases, the demand for IDC cabinets is also expected to grow steadily. According to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, it is expected that by 2025, the demand for new IDC cabinets in China will reach 750,000 units per year. In recent years, with the implementation of various supporting policies, the characteristics of the cabinet market have become increasingly prominent.
01. Experienced companies have stronger capabilities
As a necessary equipment in the computer room, there are quite a number of cabinet brands. However, the cabinet size standards for width, depth, and height in the industry are not uniform. If the width is not sufficient, the equipment may not be installed. If the depth is not sufficient, the tail of the equipment may protrude from the cabinet. Outside, the insufficient height results in insufficient space for equipment installation. Each piece of equipment has strict requirements for the cabinet.
The construction of data centers and command centers is a large-scale application scenario for cabinets, and their cabinet products are non-standardized. Enterprises in the industry need to provide customized products according to the different needs of customer projects.
Usually the batch size of customized products is small and there are many batches, which requires enterprises to conduct all-round business cooperation with customers throughout the entire business process from product design, technology research and development to after-sales service support to provide customers with comprehensive solutions.
Therefore, companies with strong quality management, market reputation, capital strength, product delivery and other capabilities often develop other product production lines in addition to cabinet product lines.
The expansion of product lines has made the advantages of leading companies increasingly prominent in market competition. It is difficult for small and medium-sized manufacturers in the industry to allocate sufficient R&D resources. Market resources are increasingly concentrated at the top, and the strong are stronger. This is one of the development trends of the industry.
02. The demand for energy-saving design is obvious
As the demand for computing power increases at a high rate, the issues of high energy consumption and high carbon emissions in various application scenarios have attracted national attention. In September 2020, my country clarified the goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality"; in February 2021, the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment and Improvement of a Green, Low-Carbon Circular Development Economic System", requiring accelerating the green transformation of the information service industry. We will do a good job in the green construction and renovation of large and medium-sized data centers and network computer rooms, and establish a green operation and maintenance system.
Nowadays, the demand for computing power is growing explosively. If not handled properly, it can easily lead to high space occupancy in the computer room, high energy consumption for equipment operation, superposition of heat generated by the entire cabinet, poor airflow organization, and an increase in local ambient temperature in the computer room, which will adversely affect the communication equipment in the computer room. Safe operation may lead to hidden dangers and other adverse consequences.
Therefore, green and low-carbon development has become the main theme of development in most industries. Many companies are committed to improving the energy efficiency of equipment through innovative energy-saving technologies, and awareness of cabinet energy-saving design is gradually becoming popular.
Cabinets have evolved from simply meeting basic functional requirements such as protecting internal components in the early days, to a stage where advanced functional requirements such as the overall internal layout of downstream end products, optimizing the external installation environment, energy conservation and environmental protection must be comprehensively considered.
For example, refined cabinets will use:
The design concept of "multiple cabinets in one cabinet" reduces the space and construction cost of the computer room, and is easy to install and operate.
Install a dynamic environmental monitoring system. Monitor the temperature, humidity, fire protection and other conditions of all cabinets in the cold aisle, diagnose and handle faults, record and analyze relevant data, and conduct centralized monitoring and maintenance of the equipment.
Intelligent temperature management, three measuring points at the top, middle and bottom are installed on the front and back doors of the cabinet to understand the server load in real time. If the server is overloaded and the temperature difference is large, the front-end air supply volume can be intelligently adjusted.
Integrate facial recognition and biometric recognition to identify visitors.
Post time: Nov-28-2023
