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Data center owners and operators are under unprecedented pressure to improve energy efficiency . Explosive growth in online applications and generative AI workloads are forcing them to build new capacity at an accelerated rate and utilize energy faster than ever before . Consider these statistics :

• North America sees 70 % jump in data center supply in construction . CBRE report says | Reuters

• According to Goldman Sachs , AI alone is expected to drive a 160 % increase in data center power demand by 2030 , as a single ChatGPT query draws 10 times

Download whitepaper here as much electricity to process as a Google search .

• Data centers are putting enormous demands on national grids . In 2022 , data centers accounted for more than 4 % of U . S . electricity use . According to an International Energy Agency report , that number is expected to climb to 6 % in 2026 .

This level of power consumption exacerbates the already heavy burden on data center owners and operators to control costs , meet global environmental standards , and help businesses reduce their environmental footprints .

Inefficient power utilization makes these problems worse .

There has never been a greater need for well-designed and maintained data center infrastructures . Airflow management and optimization are key to any data center energy efficiency improvement project .

After reading this white paper , you will have a better understanding of six effective measures every data center owner or decision-maker must consider when deploying IT cabinets to boost energy efficiency . Some of these measures are straightforward but somewhat unknown . Others are highly innovative .

All these measures prevent the mixture of hot and cold air flows at the cabinet level , mitigating wellknown issues , including bypass and recirculation airflows . Minimizing these problems , at scale , is vital to optimizing data center energy efficiency .

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