This article originally appeared in the Omdia blog.
New Omdia analysis reveals that the marketplace for prefabricated modular and micro knowledge facilities will attain $11.7 billion by 2027, with progress peaking in 2023 and 2024, fueled by the necessity to speed-up knowledge heart builds within the wake of the AI growth.
The prefabricated modular knowledge facilities (PMDC) market includes single and multi-module constructions that may have one operate (e.g. energy, cooling) or all knowledge heart capabilities (e.g. all-in-one). Omdia expects $8.6bn of PMDC gross sales in 2027.
The biggest class available in the market, prefabricated energy modules, grew the quickest amongst all module sorts tracked by Omdia because it enabled each new knowledge heart builds and the growth of present knowledge facilities’ energy capability.
Micro-modular knowledge facilities (micro-DCs) comprise single and multi-module designs, that are shipped pre-integrated by the provider. Omdia expects $3.1 billion of micro-modular DC gross sales in 2027.
“Micro-DCs are interesting to each cloud service suppliers and enterprises” highlighted Vlad Galabov, cloud and knowledge heart analysis director at Omdia. “Hyperscale cloud service suppliers had been early adopters of multi-rack micro-DCs. Offsite pre-integration sped up on-site set up.
“Following my latest go to to a Tencent knowledge heart in Tianjin, China in 2018, the groups had already deployed multi-rack micro-DCs at scale and had been desirous to share learnings on their intentions to extend their use of PMDC and micro-DC options sooner or later.”
Huawei is the chief within the international PMDC market, adopted by Schneider Electrical and Vertiv. Johnson Controls, Schneider Electrical, and MC Dean are the three largest distributors in North America. Vertiv and Rittal are the 2 largest distributors in Western Europe, whereas Huawei is the biggest vendor in Asia and Oceania and the remainder of EMEA.
The micro-DC market is considerably extra numerous resulting from its decrease limitations of entry. Huawei is the market chief although Vertiv and DTCT observe shut behind.
“We count on PMDC and micro-DC innovation to proceed, with a concentrate on excessive energy density to help extremely configured servers optimized for AI workloads,” highlighted Siraj Aziz, the analyst main Omdia’s PMDC and micro-DC analysis. “Integration of liquid cooling and batteries are two key innovation areas we anticipate.”
