Recently, China’s first container data center was completed and powered by Century Connect and will soon be put into commercial operation. Industry experts pointed out that the birth of a container data center solved the sharp contradiction between the ever-expanding IT requirements and energy efficiency, and made up for the inadequacy of traditional data centers because energy consumption was too large and 85% of data centers were not fully utilized.

There are many benefits to the container data center concentrating on container data centers. Compared to traditional data centers, container data centers are cheaper because they save a lot of data center construction costs and are easier to transport. According to information agency data, container data centers are 30% cheaper to design and build than traditional data centers that have large amounts of air-conditioning and even raised floors and ceilings. The containerized data center can complete production within 4 to 6 weeks, and it can be installed and debugged within 1 day. The construction period is much shorter than that of traditional data centers. Moreover, the location of the container data center construction is more flexible and can be installed both indoors and outdoors.

According to experts, portable container data centers can be recognized by the market because Microsoft and HP have publicly promoted modular data center capabilities. Most large foreign hardware manufacturers currently have products in this area. This will exacerbate the competition for rental of data center venues and eventually drive prices down. The year 2008-2009 was a year in which the concept of a container data center has taken a big leap forward, and 2010 will be the year when the container data center has entered a wide range of practical implementation stages.

As a leading representative company in the IDC industry, Century Connect began research on container data centers since 2002 and is one of the first companies to enter the green energy sector in China. In April 2003, it obtained patents and box data from container data centers. Center infrastructure patents. Today, China's first container data center product was officially launched and put into commercial use, which has far-reaching significance for the development of China's high-tech technology industry.

Solving the problem of excessive energy consumption According to Gartner statistics, due to the challenge of insufficient data center capacity, more than 70% of the global 1000 companies plan to update and expand data center equipment in the next five years. The rapid growth of application and computing density has led to a five-fold increase in data center power consumption over the past 10 years. The cost of using a 1U server even reaches twice the purchase cost. Not only that, the power used to cool the air conditioner in the data center even exceeds the power used for calculations. At the same time, energy prices are rising. Excessive energy consumption has become a hot issue in the industry. The huge energy consumption of traditional data centers has led people to eagerly call for the emergence of a new generation of green data centers.

The CenturyLink Container Data Center realized high-density equipment layout. Each container data center can accommodate 912 1U servers. This is equivalent to 127 traditional rack cabinets (1.5KVA/rack) capacity, and is suitable for depths up to 800mm. All servers. CenturyLink Container Data Center uses UPS containers for single-channel N+1 power supply, battery backup time is 10 minutes, and PUE value is as low as 1.3.

Helping Internet companies to rapidly develop information technology, especially the rapid development of the Internet industry, makes enterprises need to invest a lot of money in information technology, this is only a data center, the capital investment of companies is difficult to predict. Because it is impossible to predict the late increment of the data center, enterprises need to seize the engine room around and leave room for future needs, resulting in a waste of capital. The wet rent strategy implemented by Cloud Cube minimizes data center rental costs for customers.

Century Internet will continue to explore international advanced management concepts and pursue the principle of “Customer First, Continuous Improvement, and Fast Action” as its core values. By optimizing network deployment and improving user experience, it will provide a reliable data center and network for corporate information assets. Protection.