Huawei Releases Data Center 2030, Continuously Leading Innovation and Development of New Data Centers

[Shanghai, China, Sept. 20, 2023] At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Huawei released the Data Center 2030 report. Aiming to guide the innovative development of the industry, the report shares insights into the future of data centers, defines key features involved, and proposes a new reference architecture.

With the intelligent era around the corner, computing power has become the top requirement and data centers the key infrastructure. Over the past three years, Huawei communicated with more than a hundred scholars, customers, partners, and research institutes, and held over 50 workshops, regarding the future of data centers. Data Center 2030 is the fruit of these discussions.

Michael Ma, Vice President of Huawei and President of the ICT Product Portfolio Mgmt & Solutions Dept, pointed out that the computing power requirements are expected to grow so fast they will outpace even Moore's Law while at the same time the growth of computing power is subject to limited resources. To cope with this contradiction, continuous innovation to improve efficiency will become the core direction of future data centers. The industry will embrace a new round of transformation.

With a focus on the core conflict between computing power requirements and resource constraints, Data Center 2030 describes five future scenarios that will affect data center development over the next decade, and proposes an innovative integration of data, operation, computing, transmission, and energy efficiency. The report defines for the first time in the industry six key technical features of future data centers, and systematically explains the development challenges as well as breakthrough directions for cloud service, computing, storage, network, and energy technologies involved in data centers. Data Center 2030 also proposes a new reference architecture for data centers and quantitatively predicts the future prospects of data centers based on 22 indicators and forecast data.

Looking ahead to 2030, Huawei will continuously work with customers and partners around the world to promote the high-quality development of global data center infrastructure and contribute to the intelligent transformation across industries.

For more information about Data Center 2030, please visit:https://www.huawei.com/en/giv/data-center-2030