Data center cooling market refers to the cooling/heat sinking solutions deployed in the data centers to control humidity and maintain an optimum ambient temperature inside a data center. A data center generates excessive heat as the electronic devices and circuitry used dissipate a part of energy in form of heat, requiring thermal management in order to improve reliability. The global data center cooling market is expected to grow at CAGR of over 13% during the forecast period of 2016-2023. The heat generated in data centers may damage the electronic system and lead to interruption in flow of information or data loss or may lead to prolong downtime, cooling solutions help in preventing these damages. Thus, the cooling solutions have become an infrastructural necessity for the modern data centers that have to perform dusk to dawn operations to support critical IT infrastructure.
The data center cooling market is primarily driven by increasing data generation and wide adoption of the cloud based infrastructure. The rapid increase in data volume owing to high internet usage demands data storage facilities that requires cooling system for proper functioning of the facility. For instance, Cisco estimated that monthly internet data usage has reached 91.3 exabyte – or 1 billion gigabytes in the year 2016 and is expected to increase on an exponential scale owing to surge in number of internet users across the globe. Thus creating need for data centers thereby driving the growth of global data center cooling market. Further increasing demand for cost effective data center solutions that focus on reducing the energy consumption are also injecting growth opportunities in the global data center cooling market. According to white paper 225 by Schneider Electric, the cooling system in the data centers consumes approximately 36% of the total energy used by the entire data center. In order to make cooling solutions energy efficient and cost effective a large investment has been made by government as well as private companies. For instance, the US department of energy (DOE) in 2016 granted a sum of $ 522,000 to University of Miami to develop software having capabilities to model and optimize data center cooling systems. The project aims at achieving 30% saving of data center cooling energy with anticipated annual savings of 70 TBtu by 2030. The other factors that drive the growth of global data center market are demand for eco-friendly data center solutions and emergence of liquid cooling technology. However, the factors that impede the growth of data center cooling market are high investment to set up cooling systems and high electricity consumption associated with the cooling systems.
Source: OBRC Analysis.
The report on global data center cooling market includes segmentation on basis of solution, verticals and end users
On the basis of solution data center cooling market is sub-segmented into:
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Air conditioning solutions
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Chillers
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Economizers
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Cooling towers
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Server/rack cooling market
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Others
On the basis of verticals data center cooling market is sub-segmented into:
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IT & Telecommunication
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Retail
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Healthcare
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BFSI
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Government
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Others
On the basis of end-user data center cooling market is sub-segmented into:
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Small and medium enterprises
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Large enterprises
The report scope is widely categorized on the basis of solutions which includes air conditioning solutions, chillers, economizers, cooling towers, server/rack cooling market, others. The total market revenue estimates and forecast includes revenues from the adoption of these cooling system and the revenues generated from transportation and maintenance of the cooling solutions are excluded from the report scope.
The global data center cooling market report has been geographically segmented in:
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North America (U.S. & Canada)
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Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, RoAPAC)
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Europe (UK, France, Germany, RoE)
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Rest of World
Geographically, North America has the largest share in the data center cooling market owing to high internet penetration, high data consumption and high investment for the development of data centers in North America. For instance, in 2017 Apple plans to invest $1.3 billion to build a 400,000-square-foot, data center in Waukee, Iowa, US similarly in 2017 Facebook plans to invest $750 million to build a 22-acre (8.9-hectare) data center in central Ohio, US. Asia Pacific data center cooling market is expected to grow at the highest owing to surge in the number of internet users, high investment to develop necessary infrastructure for digitization in countries such as India and high investment to develop data centers.
IT & Telecommunication held the largest share in 2016 owing to high adoption of data center cooling solution in the IT & telecom sector as the sector require 24*7 active hours, steady uptime due to financial penalty problems. Further, server/ rack cooling in the solution segment is expected to grow at the highest rate owing to their high energy efficiency due to a targeted approach for heat sinking.
The major market players of the global data center cooling market are:
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BLACK BOX CORP.(US)
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3M (U.S.)
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SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC(France)
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HITACHI, LTD. (Japan)
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EMERSON ELECTRIC (U.S.)
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IBM CORPORATION (U.S.)
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OTHERS
These companies are using various strategies such as merger & acquisition, collaboration, partnership and product launch. Whereas, product launch/Innovation is the key strategy adopted by the companies in the data center cooling market.
For Example; In 2017 STULZ in partnership with Cool IT Systems launched STULZ Micro DC a Liquid Cooled Micro Data Center that manages 100% of the IT load via liquid. The product uses thermal conductivity of liquid enabling concentrated cooling, further the product is capable of supporting OEM server at high density configurations.
In 2017 Schneider Electric Launched Ecoflair Indirect Air Economizer based on Ecoflair proprietary polymer heat-exchanger technology. The use of polymer allows provides high energy efficiency in terms of data center cooling and thus reduces cooling cost and capital expenditure owing to its small electrical infrastructure.
The report covers detailed analysis of companies which comprises overview, SCOT analysis, product portfolio, strategic initiative, strategic analysis, competitive landscape and market share analysis in data center cooling market.
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Key findings of the global data center cooling market:
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Advanced energy efficient cooling systems to drive the data center cooling market.
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North America held highest revenue share in 2016.
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IT and telecom segment in the vertical segment held the large revenue share in 2016
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Product launch is the key strategy adopted by players of data center cooling market.
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