With a focus on smart and low-carbon data centers, the Smart Data Centre Technology Forum has been held in Addis Ababa in collaboration with Huawei Ethiopia and IE Network Solutions.
The event discussed the latest trends, new opportunities, demands, and challenges for the data center industry in the AI computing era and shared cutting-edge technologies and innovative practices for green data centers. It brought together leaders and experts from government agencies, the BFSI industry, as well as international institutions and stakeholders.
Dylan Chen, Executive Director, Huawei Congo Digital Power Business, remarked in his opening speech that as the core foundation of the digital economy and intelligent world, the data center industry is embracing a record boom. To cope with challenges of traditional data centers such as long construction periods, high energy consumption, difficult, and low reliability,
Huawei integrates digital and power electronics technologies to build green, simple, smart, and reliable data center facilities for our customers and eco partners. Robel Getachew, the business development manager of IE Network Solutions, mentioned in his part that Huawei and IE Network Solutions are working together to provide, since 2020, efficient power supply solutions and cooling solutions to help customers and eco-partners build low-carbon and smart data centers.