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Facilities Infrastructure Priorities in the Age of AI

AI adoption is quickly gaining momentum in the enterprise space, but there are key priorities that data center operators and IT decision-makers need to consider regarding the hardware and design of their data centers, including power and cooling. Here are your facilities infrastructure priorities for 2024.
WWT Research
•Aug 1, 2024

What is facilities infrastructure?

Facilities infrastructure comprises six distinct disciplines, each critical for ensuring that facilities and legacy infrastructure operate at optimal efficiency and are prepared to support future demands, including the growing requirements of AI infrastructure. These disciplines are:

What is facilities infrastructure?

Power

This includes the entire power chain from generation to distribution, encompassing generators, overhead busways, PDUs (Power Distribution Units), rack-mounted and floor-mounted UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) battery backups, and DC power plants.

What is facilities infrastructure?

Cooling

This discipline covers the entire thermal chain, from the production of cooling (e.g., chillers) to various cooling methods such as perimeter flooding, row-based cooling and advanced solutions like rear door and chassis or chip-based liquid cooling. 

What is facilities infrastructure?

Cabling

This includes fiber and copper cabling, backbone and structured cabling, horizontal cabling, and the pathways for cabling such as overhead trays and troughs. Grounding and bonding are also critical components of this discipline. 

What is facilities infrastructure?

Space management

This involves discovery assessments, audits, workshops and the design of cabinet layouts, racks and floor plans. It also includes the integration of DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) solutions. 

What is facilities infrastructure?

Safety

This discipline primarily involves sensor technology, including cameras for computer vision, crowd counting and general facility protection. 

What is facilities infrastructure?

Containers

This involves the use of containerized solutions to support various infrastructure needs, particularly in dynamic and scalable environments. 

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Facilities Infrastructure Priorities in the Age of AI

AI adoption is quickly gaining momentum in the enterprise space, but there are key priorities that data center operators and IT decision-makers need to consider regarding the hardware and design of their data centers, including power and cooling. Here are your facilities infrastructure priorities for 2024.
WWT Research
•Aug 1, 2024

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What can we do for you?

Partner with our experts to uncover opportunities and strategies for your data center design to unlock its full potential. By leveraging our expertise and partnerships, we can help you achieve the following benefits:

  • Reduced costs and enhanced energy efficiency
  • Greater flexibility, scalability and control
  • Increased agility and innovation
  • Enhanced monitoring, reporting and decision-making capabilities
  • Improved uptime and readiness for future expansion

Facilities Infrastructure Briefing

Need help with the basic principles of data center design and all the major sub-systems of a mission critical facility? Need to focus on all their inter dependencies, including power, cooling, space layout, cabling, safety and more? These are the main disciplines of our Facilities Infrastructure Practice that we will explore during a briefing session.

Facilities Infrastructure Workshop

The Facilities Infrastructure Workshop will cover our six main disciplines and services capabilities in a consultative approach that will arm you with essential data to help drive relevant business outcomes that will support your IT environment.

Facilities Infrastructure Assessment

The goal of the facilities infrastructure assessment is to provide you with a clear picture of your data center's current state, actual capacity, reliability and vulnerabilities so that you have the information you need to begin the road mapping process to a brighter, more efficient and sustainable data center.

Facilities infrastructure case studies

Scott Data Embraces AI Transformation to Offer GPU as a Service

Learn how a data center leader partnered with WWT to validate and execute a strategic vision for providing on-demand access to the advanced high-performance infrastructure required to run today's most demanding AI workloads.
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Streamlining Processes with Automation and Network Discovery for a Global Financial Market

Following multiple mergers and acquisitions, a global financial market needed to rationalize its complex legacy infrastructure to minimize costs, streamline systems and reduce data center emissions.
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University Data Center: Optimize Space With Modern Performance and Scalability

After years of steady enrollment growth, a major university needed to transfer its data center to a smaller location to make room for additional student residences.
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Project Pays for itself with Updated Cooling Solution

WWT's facilities infrastructure design utilized outdoor environment to reduce chiller compressors to run-time by 40 percent and helped provide payback within 16 months of the entire project.
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Facilities infrastructure partners

We partner with leading OEMs to help our clients build robust infrastructures that will support their IT investments today and for years to come.

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric is a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers and intelligent buildings.

Eaton Corporation

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power - today and well into the future.

Panduit

Panduit provides physical infrastructure equipment that supports power, communications, computing, control and security systems.

Vertiv

Vertiv provides equipment and services for data centers, along with cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network.

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