Data Center and Intelligent City

Unprecedented human and social changes are taking place in countries all over the world, and data from the United Nations and many other countries are the strongest evidence for it. The acceleration of urbanization and population growth have led to the increasing demand for various resources.

For many countries, the most important thing is the success of big cities.

With the development of big cities and megacities, in order to provide tens of millions of residents with a high quality of life, the key to success depends on whether they have a strong infrastructure. With infrastructure, they also need the ability to allocate resources reasonably. The construction of data centers is the key.

Providing Power for Intelligent Cities

Digital technology is integrated through the “smart city’s” infrastructure development, which makes urban services more efficient, reduces the consumption of resources, and strengthens the relationship between the government and the people, and better facilitates the communication between the two. If implemented properly, metropolises such as Shanghai, New York and Tokyo can adopt smart city technology to realize the utilization of large population and promote social and economic development.

However, the benefits of smart cities can only be realized when digital infrastructure can cope with urban problems well. The most important point is how to physically connect the distributed devices and sensors so that they can exchange information in real time. Only by realizing seamless interconnection between people and applications, data, content, cloud computing and networks can we dig deep into the potential value of large data.

Challenge of Solving Ability

To achieve seamless interconnection between people and device programs, intelligent applications need a lot of connectivity, data storage and computing power, so it is logical to assume that the data center will be located in the center of the smart city. However, when it comes to the data center strategy, it is not easy for the state and the enterprises who operates the internal deployment of the data center to achieve the strategic layout.

Because there are two major problems, the disposal of legacy infrastructure and how to create new facilities, which are plaguing the state and enterprises. For some, this may mean that traditional core connectivity hubs must work with small data centers optimized for edge computing. Suppliers may also need solutions to handle different local energy regulations and prices and to determine the best location for building data center facilities.

As people enter the era of intelligent metropolitan environment, multi-tenant hosting facilities will continue to play an important role in providing users with the best interconnection, flexibility and scalability. Intelligent metropolitan applications are driven by high performance computing (HPC), because it provides an efficient way to deal with the challenges posed by the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data. Data center managers will continue to adopt high-density innovation strategy to maximize productivity and efficiency, improve available power density and physical footprint computing capabilities of data centers, which will provide large data applications with strong technical support.

Although the construction of data centers provides incredible opportunities for the intellectualization of large cities, there will be more risks if infrastructure fails to support the huge population.

In fact, in order to make big cities smart and improve the quality of life of tens of millions of people, innovative technological infrastructure is needed to support them. Only by acquiring the data center strategy correctly can the government, enterprises and personnel have intelligent and scalable assets and achieve more choices and growth. If not implemented correctly, it will become the basic constraints of innovation and change.