LED Lighting opens up new markets: cloud computing data center
Release date: 2017-07-31 Source: Gaogong LED sharing: 
The war between the cloud computing fields will not stop and only iterate. In all the commercial competition iterations, companies that are able to catch up with the times are those who have a keen sense of market trends. In the field of cloud computing, after the price of 2016, the entire cloud industry seems to have broken through the price stagnation in 2017 and returned to calm. Looking at the pattern of domestic cloud vendors, there is a bigger change after the smoke.
Recently, XtraLight, a Houston, Texas company, recently began to focus on data center LED lighting. The study found that data centers can use the best management energy efficiency measures and strategies to reduce energy consumption by 40%, so XtraLight began to pay attention to this field.
The company noted that the study found that data centers can increase their power usage efficiency (PUE) by 25% by switching data centers to energy-efficient LED lighting with advanced sensors and control systems. Traditional lighting can warm rooms. And allows the HVAC system to keep the data center area cool.
However, LED lighting does not generate too much heat and can reduce the load on the data center HVAC system. XtraLight CEO Jerry Caroom said: "Many existing data center lighting configurations are not only inefficient, but also lack the customization and control. This is the advantage of our new LED fixtures with controls and sensors that can make substantial changes."
The luminaire with the control unit includes a sensor that senses the person entering an area and automatically turns the light on. The sensor can also detect that a person is leaving the area to trigger the turning off or dimming of the luminaire. This configuration ensures that only active areas are illuminated, reducing energy consumption.
According to XtraLight, it offers a range of lighting options for the data center, such as general lighting (LED round high-bay lights), channel lighting (LED high-bay light channel luminaires), and inspection lighting (LED service luminaires).
In addition, for data centers with lower ceilings, XtraLight also offers embedded lighting; the company also offers external and security/landscape lighting to prevent criminal activity. With the rapid explosive growth of China in the cloud computing industry in recent years, it has brought huge demand for data centers.
On April 10, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Cloud Computing Development (2017-2019)" to promote the development of a new generation of information industry represented by cloud computing. By 2019, China's cloud computing industry will reach 430 billion yuan, breaking through a number of core key technologies, and cloud computing service capabilities will reach the international advanced level, and the driving effect on the development of the new generation of information industry will be significantly enhanced.
How hot the words AI, Big Data, and Cloud Computing are, no longer need to be emphasized. But few people know that the data center that supports these high-tech is the real heat - hundreds of thousands of servers are clustered together for high-speed computing, and the room temperature often exceeds 40 degrees Celsius, comparable to sauna days.
It is conceivable that the energy consumption required to cool the server and ensure the operation of the server is also a big number. According to industry insiders, if no technical improvements are made, the energy consumption of a data center is likely to exceed that of a county with a population of 300,000.
Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center, this is the only data center in China that has basically achieved natural cooling. It does not need to open air conditioning units for cooling about 96% of the year. Yangquan Center has thus become the only data center in China that has designed and operated dual 5A certification through the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Green Grid Organization (TGG) Green Data Center.
Compared with the international advanced level, the overall energy consumption level of China's data centers has been on the high side. The “Technical Specifications for Green Data Center Building Evaluation†promulgated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in December 2015 stipulates that the PUE value of the data center design should be less than or equal to 2.0.
The PUE value is a common standard for judging the energy consumption of data centers in the world. The standard of China 2.0 represents 1 kWh for system consumption per kWh of electricity consumed, and the other half is used for calculation itself.
The goal of the 13th Five-Year National Informatization Plan, which was released in December 2016, is that by 2018, the original innovation capability of cloud computing and the Internet of Things will be significantly enhanced, and the new large-scale cloud computing data center power usage efficiency (PUE) value will be built. Not higher than 1.5; by 2020, the formation of an internationally competitive cloud computing and Internet of Things industry system, the new large cloud computing data center PUE value is not higher than 1.4. It is necessary to reduce the PUE value by 13.29% in one year.
In addition to energy saving, the data center's requirements for lighting systems are extremely strict, and its light needs to be bright and soft. It should be reasonably laid out, easy to operate, and create a good working environment for the staff. Not only that, but the national standards also stipulate that the lighting of the computer room needs to meet the requirements of illumination, illumination uniformity, lighting stability and glare suppression.
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