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Huawei's Groundbreaking AI Data Center Solutions

On May 13, 2025, Dubai hosted the Global Data Center Facility Summit 2025 with the theme ‘Power the Digital Era Forward.’ This significant event gathered over 500 industry leaders, technical experts, and partners to explore new growth opportunities within the realm of AI data centers. Here, Huawei made a pivotal announcement regarding its AI Data Center solutions that aim to elevate the sector into a new era of intelligent computing.

During his opening address, Charles Yang, Senior VP of Huawei and President of Global Marketing, Sales, and Services, emphasized the emergence of a golden age for computing infrastructure. He shared that current predictions estimate the global AI direct current (DC) capacity will exceed 100 GW by 2028, presenting an immense market potential, particularly in energy infrastructure, which could surpass $600 billion.

However, Yang acknowledged three major challenges confronting the development of AI data centers: the necessity for enhanced reliability, accelerated deployment, and increased energy requirements. To tackle these challenges, Huawei proposes three key development trends for AI Data Centers:

1. Enhancing Reliability through Innovative Architecture: The company asserts that reliability is of utmost importance. Implementing isolated architecture in power supply systems can significantly improve system reliability.
2. Accelerating AI Data Center Construction with Modular Designs: Huawei’s Outdoor PowerPOD utilizes a fully decoupled architecture, allowing for a dedicated energy system in each container, which considerably reduces time-to-market (TTM).
3. Improving Energy Efficiency with Sustainable Power Sources: Huawei plans to enhance energy efficiency through direct access to renewable energy and the application of AI-driven optimization strategies.

The summit also featured Bob He, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power and President of the Data Center Facility and Critical Power Product Line. He delivered a keynote presentation titled “Building a Solid Foundation for the Era of Intelligent Computing,” outlining the swift growth of intelligent data centers alongside their accompanying challenges—namely, rapid deployment, flexible usage, and minimized total cost of ownership (TCO).

In response to these challenges, Huawei introduced RASTM—essential principles for the construction of AI data centers:

• - Reliable: It is critical to guarantee reliability throughout an AI data center’s lifecycle, focusing on product durability, architectural stability, smart management, and professional services. Huawei’s SmartLi features a multi-layered end-to-end security defense line and employs isolated architecture to mitigate service disruptions caused by accidents.
• - Agile: AI data centers must possess agility, from hardware components to overall systems, to adapt flexibly to fluctuating demands in AI services. The Outdoor PowerPOD’s integrated subsystems allow flexible deployment and gradual expansion of capacity.
• - Sustainable: Enhancing power supply efficiency for AI DCs is crucial, prioritizing parallel system efficiency over module efficiency. Huawei’s modular UPS5000-H achieves a 97.5% efficiency rating for individual units and reaches up to 99.1% in S-ECO mode for optimal energy efficiency.

Through reliable products and lifecycle services, along with professional consulting and design capabilities, Huawei is committed to developing AI data center solutions that ensure rapid deployment, comprehensive reliability, optimal TCO, and high flexibility—essential components for advancing the digital era.

In a collaborative effort, Huawei and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), supported by partners like Alibaba Cloud and major Chinese telecommunications companies, launched a white paper detailing safety measures for lithium-ion battery applications within data centers. This initiative aims to enhance operational safety across the data center sector and reinforce the industry's growth.

By pursuing continual innovations, Huawei Digital Power aspires to penetrate deeper into the data center industry, breaking through technological limits to deliver leading products and solutions that substantially improve the sector and lay a robust foundation for a smarter world.