NAIROBI, Kenya, April 24 – Smartphone maker Oppo is eyeing green data centers as it seeks to raise awareness about environmental protection.
The OPPO AndesBrain (Binhaiwan Bay) IDC, OPPO’s first self-built data center, integrates infrastructure and business innovations to reduce carbon emissions.
This comes at a time when the firm seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 across its operations.
‘’This year’s theme is to Invest in our planet and our aligned mission is Technology for Mankind, Kindness for the world,’’ Oppo said in a statement.
Besides utilizing 100 percent renewable energy, the center adopts cutting-edge, low-carbon technologies to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
‘’A key breakthrough of this exploration is the research and implementation of immersion cooling technology for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) server clusters,’’ added the statement.
Current data centers are estimated to consume up to three percent of the world’s total electricity, and one of the key culprits of this consumption is cooling systems, which consume a significant amount of energy.
Efficient heat dissipation methods have long been a challenge in the industry.
Traditional data centers typically rely on mechanical cooling devices like fans and air conditioners, which consume extra energy and emit higher levels of carbon dioxide.
Immersion cooling technology for GPU server clusters is an innovation solution that OPPO employs to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
This technology entails submerging servers directly in a non-conductive liquid, which removes heat generated during operation without requiring active cooling from equipment like fans and air conditioners.
The heated liquid circulates, cools, and returns to continue absorbing the heat.
The reclaimed heat can then be repurposed in other areas, such as heating in the dormitory and hot water provision, substantially increasing energy efficiency.
The adoption of immersion cooling technology leads to a 45 percent improvement in energy efficiency and an industry-leading data center power usage efficiency (PUE) as low as 1.15.
