Huawei Korea "Korean Data Center Industry Rapid Growth... Will Support Intelligence and Low Carbonization"

Data Center Growth... Essential Power Consumption Also Increases

Son Lu-won, CEO of Huawei Korea, is speaking at the keynote address of the '2022 Huawei Korea IDC Energy Summit.' Photo by Huawei Korea

[Asia Economy Reporter Minyoung Cha] As the data center industry, the foundation of the digital economy, develops, competition for innovative technologies to improve power efficiency has also intensified.

Huawei Korea announced on the 24th that it held the "2022 Huawei Korea IDC Energy Summit" under the theme "Intelligent Data Centers, Building the Future."

Son Luwon, CEO of Huawei Korea, who delivered the keynote speech that day, said, "Korea is a leading country in the global digital economy, and the Korean data center industry is also rapidly growing. Huawei will actively collaborate with customers, partners, and the industry chain with innovative products and solutions, global business experience, and an open and cooperative attitude to contribute to the development of Korea's data center industry into intelligent and low-carbon."

More than 200 experts, leaders, and corporate officials from the data center industry attended the summit. Discussions were held on the development trends of the Korean data center industry, future market prospects, the latest technologies related to low-carbon intelligent data centers, and total cost of ownership (TCO) based on the data center lifecycle.

Song Junhwa, Secretary General of the Korea Data Center Energy Efficiency Association, said, "As digitalization accelerates and demand for cloud and data increases, the IDC industry is growing rapidly." As of 2021, the number of commercial data centers grew by more than 11% to 37, and essential IT power consumption exceeded 400MW. It is expected that by 2025, 22 new commercial data centers will be built, and essential IT power consumption will exceed 1100MW.

Jerry Zhang, Vice President of Huawei's Global Data Center Energy Business Unit, defined the key challenges of existing data center construction as long construction periods, high energy consumption, operational management difficulties, and equipment reliability issues, and proposed four improvement measures for building smart, eco-friendly, and low-carbon data centers.

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