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Data Center 2025
An Industrywide Look at the Future of Data Center Ecosystems
Lynette Gordon
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Respondents
Emerson conducted a four-month long
industry-wide, global study into the
future of the data centre and solicited
viewpoints
• Customers
• Media analysts
• Industry partners
170
241
238
15921 Other
Latin America
Western Europe
Asia Pacific
United States
21%
18%
17%
15%
12%
10%7%
DC Mgmt
Exec. Mgmt
DC Operations
Project Mgmt
Engr. & Tech
IT Dev. & Admin
Other
Demographics
Less than 1 year
1 to 4 years
5 to 9 years
10 to 19 years
20 to 29 years
30 to 39 years
4%
17%
33%
31%
11%
4%
Years of experience working with data centres
Information Technology (IT) 18%Banking / Financial Services 17%
Manufacturing 16%Telecommunications 9%
Energy 5%Government, Military, Non-Profit 5%
Healthcare / Pharmaceutical 4%Education 4%
Construction 3%Transportation 2%
Consumer Products Retailer 2%Utilities 2%Apparel 2%
Internet / Software 2%Co-Location / Facility Mgmt 1%
Entertainment 1%Food and Beverage 1%
Legal 0%Other Industry 8%
Primary Industry of Respondents
51%
Three Visions of Data Center 2025
o Lower energy efficiency than today
o Data centres will be larger
o Increased use of renewable energy, but not by much
36% 40% 22%Conservative Moderate Progressive
o Improved energy efficiency
o Data centres will be 50%-80% smaller
o Obtain 1/5th of power from solar energy
o Much greater efficiency
o Data centre will be much smaller- a 10th of current size
o 30% of power from renewables
…will consume lower energy
9%20%
7%
31%33%
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Data centre infrastructure will be more efficient
IT infrastructure will be more efficient
Other Improvements
84%
67%
8%
Over 35% of respondents believe that we will not be
more efficient
…will be smaller in size
Larger than today
Same size as today
Half as large as today
One fifth as large as today
One-tenth as large as today
27%
14%
30%
18%10%
% o
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Over 55% of Population believes that data centres
will shrink in size
...will be Powered by Alternative FuelsSolar
Nuclear
Natural Gas
Wind
Coal
Oil
Fuel cells
Geothermal
Tidal
Other sources
21%
15%
14%
12%
8%
8%
6%
5%
5%
6%
% o
f R
esp
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ts
33%31%
36%
Much Lower
Lower
Same or Higher
Future Data Centre Energy Consumption will be
... will be Self Healing & highly Utilized
30%
31%
28%
9%
80-99%
60-79%
100%
<60%Same as today
Self-Optimizing, Self-Healing and Unmanned
Self-Optimizing
Comprehensive Visibility across all systems and layers
43%
25%
29%
3%
Only 40% think that Capacity Utilization will
be above 80%
% o
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esp
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ts
% o
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esp
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...will have much higher power density
10 kW 20 kW 40 kW 80 kW 100 kW
12%
18%
29% 26%
15%
Expectations of much bigger shift in rack power density. Rack density has averaged
below 10kW/rack for past 7 years*
* Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users’ GroupTM
Total Europe Germany France Italy Spain UK
30%22% 26%
10% 14%23%
38%
27%32%
50%
30%32%
23%
19%
24% 25%
16%
30%
36%23%
29%
13% 16%0%
23%
18%
27%
10%7% 5% 8% 7%
0% 4% 5%
...will use more efficient back up power
High-efficiency UPS
Momentary Duty Inverter
Software Failover
DC UPS
Other
% of Respondents
Total Europe Germany France Italy Spain UK
41%34%
45%
22%30% 33% 32%
20%
18%
14%
15%
33%
7%
32%
19%
22%18%
30%
19%
37%
5%
11% 17%18%
22%
15%15%
16%
9% 8% 5%11%
4% 7%16%
...will use novel thermal management
% of Respondents
Air + Liquid
Ambient Air
Cold Air
Liquid
Immersive
Less than 99.67%
99.67%99.75%99.98%99.99%Better than 99.99%
7%6%
16%18%24%
30%
...will have higher availability expectations%
of
Res
po
nd
ents
…will need to cope with high skill retirements
56%50%
70%
49% 48%
23% 37%
10%
21% 25%
7%
4%6%
11% 8%
6%4%
7%8% 6%
8% 5% 7% 11% 12%
No - Career Change
Yes, I will be in the industry in 2025
No - I'll be retired
No - Due to changes in the data centre industry
No - Other Reason
1% - 9%10% - 19%20% - 39%40% - 59%60% - 79%80% - 99%100%1%3%
11%
20%
33%
25%
9%
…used as the outsourced cloud
Total Europe Germany France Italy Spain UK
Avg. % of Computing in Cloud 67% 61% 65% 62% 60% 49% 70%
Avg. % Utilization of Compute Capacity
68% 63% 65% 70% 58% 51% 66%
% of computing in the cloud (outsourced) in 2025
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Datacentre Customer Drivers & Needs
Technology & Market Drivers
Datacentre Owner/ Operator Pressures
Budget Management
Missed SLAs, Downtime Costs, Loss of Trust
Increasing Number of Business Critical Apps
Rapid Growth Of Data
Mobile Computing
Server Virtualization
Public & Private Clouds
Inability To Plan; Long Lead Time For New Capacity
Business Factors
Compliance & Data Security
Security ThreatsLack Of Visibility
Capacity Management
Uptime & Availability
Low Productivity & Loss Of Flexibility
Core Problems That Need Solutions
Increasing Operational Costs
Imp
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More about the study
The full Data Center 2025 report can be found at http://www.EmersonNetworkPower.eu/DataCenter2025.
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