The next big step for Danfoss’ digital transformation will be the building of new data centers, which are needed for a strong IT infrastructure to support the growth of the company. Danfoss will build its data centers with its own energy-efficient technologies as an inspiration for how to minimize the impact of increasing volumes of data on the climate. Currently, around 10 per cent of the world’s electricity is used on IT.
With an uptime of 99.9999999999996 per cent, the most important thing is ensured: access to data and services 24-7. Danfoss will also get a taste of its own medicine by building new, energy-efficient data centers near the company’s headquarters. The facilities will house large and response-critical data volumes, which Danfoss produces in its new smart IT platforms as part of the company’s digital transformation.
“We are building a new, energy-efficient and cost-efficient home for our data and applications. At the same time, we are continuing our journey toward cloud services. The big challenge for the industry is to use the best from these two worlds: the data center’s potential to service the smart and highly specialised factory applications, and the ‘cloud’s’ constantly growing number of services and possibilities for scaling up and down ,” says Sune Tornbo Baastrup, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Danfoss.
The data centers are built as modules that will allow Danfoss to expand the centers as the need for data increases. Danfoss is the world leader when it comes to developing energy-efficient technologies, and the company’s data centers will be an example of how technology can be used to reduce energy consumption in these types of facilities.
It is possible to save a large amount of the power that data centers use for cooling servers. Danfoss specializes in cooling technology and solutions that can save more than 50 per cent of the energy that data centers use for cooling. Danfoss also has the technology for making use of the data centers’ excess heat and channeling it to the existing district heating grids, benefiting consumers – and the climate.
“Denmark has a high profile in the field of sustainable energy, and it has attracted data centers from global technology companies. Denmark is already the world leader when it comes to keeping the environmental consequences of cooling at an absolute minimum. We are very enthusiastic about our cooperation with Danfoss because we can see a dramatically increasing global potential for a climate-friendly data infrastructure,” says Carsten Regner Nielsen, Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Denmark.
