L14 - Artificial Intelligence applied to Data Centres

Question 1

What did Leto say about Data Centres?

Answer 1

The factories of the 21st century

Question 2

What is a data centre?

Answer 2

A data centre is a space dedicated space, a building or a group of buildings (campus) used to house IT assets, like networks devices, servers and storage systems

• Can be underground
  
  • in a building
  • on a ship (Singapore has really high land cost and had lots of obsolete ships)
  • underwater

Question 3

How much data do we need for a data centre?

Answer 3

There is no magic number:

• But a few factors can be considered
  
  • The complexity of the model
  • Training method
  • Data quality
  • Accuracy Requirements
  • Diversity of input
  • Benchmark data of problems already solved
  • Availability of domain expertise
• Guesstimate
  
  • Get as much good data as appropriate

Question 4

What can we get from data that human beings cannot do?

Answer 4

Question 5

What are the 5 uses of AI in a Data Centre?

Answer 5

Question 6

Why is cooling optimization difficult with manual or static control algorithms?

Answer 6

• Design standards provide more cooling than needed
• Airflow complexity and IT variability make it impossible to optimise manually or with static control algo
• The result is wasted energy, lost capacity and hidden thermal risk