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Maximize uptime, capacity utilization, and energy efficiency with always-ready CFD models and data center digital twin technology
Maximize uptime, capacity utilization, and energy efficiency with always-ready CFD models and data center digital twin technology
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/, Dec. 13, 2023 –
With increasing focus on sustainable operations, data center operators have three – at times conflicting – business mandates to uphold: maximizing uptime, capacity utilization, and energy efficiency. These mandates often impact one another, as well as the entire data center system's stability.
As organizations work to strike the right balance, many operators find themselves stuck in a reactive cycle of firefighting issues as they arise – in no small part due to manual processes and a lack of integrated tools.
Digital twin technology can help data center operators break through this reactive cycle. Cadence DataCenter Digital Twin enables proactive practices with always-ready computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models that can perform capacity planning and energy optimization analysis in the form of predictive what-ifs.
In this article, I'll cover how an automated data entry workflow can produce routinely updated CFD analysis and simplify the decision-making process in data center operations.
Overcoming the scalability challenge
For over two decades, the data center industry has used CFD to predict airflow and temperature distribution in the whitespace. CFD analysis enables data center designers and operators to model how a data center will perform under any operating conditions.
However, until recently, the technology was primarily used during the design and commissioning phases or mid-life for retrofits and optimization projects. Use in day-to-day operations was largely seen as a pipe dream. The rationale was that CFD models are difficult to maintain without an impractical commitment of resources.
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