Latin America. According to an IDC study, investment in data center infrastructure in Latin America is expected to reach $7 billion by 2025.
Data Centers, according to Schneider Electric, have become the perfect solution for information storage, regardless of their weight or the amount of data produced by companies.
According to an IDC report, the Latin American region will experience an increase in the demand for data centers in the coming years due to the increase in the adoption of cloud technologies and the digitization of businesses. Therefore, investment in data center infrastructure in Latin America is expected to reach 7 billion dollars by 2025.
For Schneider Electric, in Colombia there is a growing interest in the construction of data centers "due to its strategic location and the availability of renewable energy and fiber optic connections." Although he does not expose figures or the exact number of data centers in Colombia, he assures that said number is constantly evolving and depends on various factors such as investment and the demand for information technology services.
The growth of colocation and information services will continue to increase in the future due to the increasing demand for cloud services and the need for data storage and processing.
Marcio Kenji, Cloud & Service Provider Segment Manager for Schneider Electric SAM, said, “As companies increase flexibility while navigating unorthodox working conditions and unpredictable supply chains, there is a need to stay ahead of the curve. of the business, as well as accelerating its ability to deliver goods and services with the speed and precision of real time.
At this point, the Data Centers of the future become important, because as Schneider Electric assures "thanks to sustainable and energy-efficient designs and models, they allow greater flexibility and quickly rotate and scale towards processes, programs, tools and resources that facilitate minimal exposure to associated hazards and risks.
Energy efficiency, the key to the sustainability of Data Centers
According to a study by the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies, data centers consume approximately 40% of it, which is used for their refrigeration systems to keep the temperature of the data centers under control; Therefore, this high energy consumption means that data centers represent up to 5% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Users will look to data center operators to implement more diverse approaches to enable their cloud and edge migrations, they will look to data centers to help them build stronger partner ecosystems, and they will expect more support in their efforts to incorporate as-a-service offerings for Your clients.
To accommodate these growing market demands, data center owners will need to increase performance in these four important areas: Sustainability, Efficiency, Flexibility, and Resiliency.
Ultimately, Schneider Electric expects the data centers of the future to integrate and accommodate comprehensive sustainability data from companies' upstream and downstream supply chains. “Beyond simply tracking company emissions, the notion of Scope 3 emissions (or supply chain-based emissions) will need to be monitored, captured, analysed, compared and published.”
