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Research Institutes of Sweden

ARCTIC OPPORTUNITIES IN

THE DATACENTER INDUSTRY

Tor Björn Minde, CEO

June 2017

SICS North

Industrialization – Innovation based on power

New-industrialization – Innovation based on data (power)

10 times mobile data traffic by end of 2019

3.3 GB

1.0 GB

0.6 GB

Monthly consumption per device type Global mobile traffic: voice and data 2010-2019

13 GB

4.5 GB

2.2 GB

2013 2019

Source: Ericsson 2013

Growth in Web-scale IT

Source: Chef 2014

Market growth by 2020 of New Mega DC

A total 700, based on sources from IDC, Gigaom och Datacenter Dynamics.

Strong

First choice

for many

30-40 mega datacenter

Datacenter establishments

Big Data & Cloud clusters

Vision: Strong growth35-45 buildings, 8000-9000 jobs

Taxes

Energy + wages

>3 billion SEK/year

Investments

Building + equipment

>12 billion SEK/year

Jobs

Construct + operate

>8000

5GUSE CASES

SMART VEHICLES,

TRANSPORT

BROADBAND AND MEDIA

EVERYWHERE

SENSORS

EVERYWHERE

INTERACTION

HUMAN-IOT

CRITICAL CONTROL

OF REMOTE DEVICES

INFRASTRUCTURE, MONITOR

AND CONTROL

Use cases

Biogas

Wood

Waste

Water & soil

Beyond the heat pump

History of the thermal problem

Cross, T. "After Moore’s Law: Double, double, toil and trouble.” The Economist, Technology Quarterly, Quarter 1 (2016).

Source: Jon Summers University of Leeds 2017

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physics”

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Datacenter generations

Generation Power

distribution

Cooling

infrastructure

IT system Energy use

Generation 1

Old School DC

Stand-alone, N+1,

many transformation

steps. diesel backup

Compressor cooling,

no containment,

raised floor

Monolithic applications,

low grade of automation

PUE > 1.8

High energy use

Generation 2

Internet DC

Some local green power

production, reduced

diesel backup

Free-cooling and

compressor, hot and

cold isle, heat pumps

Some monolithic and

virtualized applications,

monolithic automation

PUE < 1.5

Modest energy use,

some energy re-use

Generation 3

Green DC

380 VDC, only green

power production,

no diesel backup

Air-based free-cooling

combined with heat

re-use, air flow tech

SDN, Fully virtualized

IT, software

redundancy, integrated

automation

PUE < 1.2

High energy

efficiency, energy

re-use

Generation 4

Integrated society

DC

Grid integration, micro

grids, load balancing,

wood building

Liquid cooling, closed

loop energy system,

predictive operation

SD-DC, holistic

automation, robot

maintenance,

distributed compute

PUE < 1.1

Fully integrated in

electrical & thermal

grid

SICS ICE. A full-scale research datacenter and test environment with the purpose

to increase knowledge, strengthen the DC ecosystem, and attract researchers.

delivering

experiments

and testing

as-a-Service

Business model

IT

Cloud

Facility

HW

Utility

University

Companies

R&I projects

Big data

Machine learning

Conclusions

Digital transformation and 5G enables a wide

range of use cases in all fields that will require

new datacenter technologies

A 50-fold growth of digital data production in the

zeta-byte industry era will be handled by an

increase in datacenters capacity and need

innovations in software, hardware & facility

SICS ICE is supporting the national academia

and industry with a large-scale research & test

facility for development of new technologies

needed to enable the transformation

Research Institutes of Sweden

THANK YOU!Tor Björn Minde

tor.bjorn.minde@sri.se

+46 70 6242959

@torshammer, @SICS_ICE

SICS North