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The Latest Innovative Data Center Trends

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Gento

Data center growth is on the rise, spurred by the digital age that we're now living in. A major component and driver of this expansive growth is the popularity of the ‘Internet of Things’. Data center construction is expected grow at an incredible rate of 21% per year between now and 2018. They're such an essential part of our daily lives that 23 states now offer tax incentives to help attract new projects, while 16 others states offer tax incentives that total a combined $1.5 billion.

As the need for newer and more efficient data centers continues to increase, it demands the question - "... where exactly are we supposed to put them all?" Data centers are hardly small operations. In China, the Range International Information Hub data center covers an astounding 6.3 million square feet, just slightly smaller than the Pentagon. While not every data center makes it to this size, it's still a potential problem that has to be addressed sooner rather than later.

Thankfully, a wide range of innovative teams have worked to come up with a number of unique solutions. In terms of the latest innovative data center trends, it should come as no surprise that a large number of them have to do with optimizing physical space. Additional priorities for these teams include making resources more readily available in a more reliable, stable manner, all of which are addressed by the following examples.

Microsoft and Project Natick 

If you want a clear-cut example of how far "thinking outside the box" will get you, look no further than Microsoft and Project Natick. The team behind Project Natick saw that as cloud computing continued to grow in importance worldwide, it essentially transcended its original intention. It was about more than just having "anywhere, anytime" access to data and became an essential driver of economic growth and global resources.

With that in mind, Project Natick was born in an effort to relocate data center resources as close as possible to the users who need them most. As 50% of society resides near large bodies of water, the ocean made perfect sense. This type of unique deep-water deployment concept immediately offered ready access to cooling, renewable power sources and a heavily controlled environment - all essential ingredients for successful data center operation.

Though Project Natick (and the vessel the Leona Philpot that will play a pivotal role in its existence) continues to undergo testing, analysis, and refitting, the project is closer than ever to completion.

Nautilus' Floating Data Centers

Another example of innovation in action has to do with the concept of the "floating data center."  This concept takes everything you need to support the entirety of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure and installs it directly onto a floating barge.

In 2015, the startup Nautilus and its two founders, Arnold Magcale and Daniel Kekai created a plan to do precisely that in the San Francisco Bay area. They quickly started construction on a floating data center at a dock on a US Navy shipyard located just 20 miles northeast of San Francisco.

Nautilus is not the only example, however, Google also patented a tide-powered floating data center idea. Much like Project Natick, these floating data centers will get mission-critical resources as close to users as possible, all while allowing operators access to a heavily controlled environment in a way that better prepares them to meet the demands of the next ten years and beyond.

As data centers rapidly grow in numbers we can only expect more of the “out of the box” thinking in design and operations. The future holds the truth when it comes to what will be the new face of data centers. So stay tuned to this very exciting world.

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