Data Center Infrastructure Solutions
Data center infrastructure is the comprehensive collection of physical and virtual components that support the operation, management, and delivery of services within a data center. This infrastructure includes servers, storage devices, networking equipment, power distribution units (PDUs), cooling systems, and security measures. It also includes components like racks, cabinets, and fire suppression systems. Collectively, these elements work together to ensure reliable performance, scalability, and efficiency, enabling data centers to handle large volumes of data, run applications, and provide services to users and organizations globally.
Get online faster and stay online.
The surge in demand for data centers is largely driven by the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud services, big data analytics, and IoT devices. These new technologies rely heavily on data centers to process and store vast amounts of data.
Predictions suggest that global construction of data centers will nearly double from 2023 to 2033, reaching over $450 billion. Data centers require significant amounts of energy to operate, with estimates suggesting that they currently account for around 2% of global electricity demand and growing.
As the demand for data centers continues to boom, there is a pressing need to develop more sustainable and energy-efficient solutions to power these facilities, including renewable energy sources, space-saving systems, and innovative cooling mechanisms — all while maximizing the power load expected of these facilities.
Enabling these efficiencies are plug-and-play connectors, like those pioneered by HARTING. Connectorization allows for:
faster data center construction
more reliable connectivity
simplified maintenance
maximized space usage
optimized supply chain management
effective environment control
among many other efficiencies
Through connectorization, data center builders of all sizes can leverage the efficiencies typically reserved for large-scale data center hyperscalers.
Key data center infrastructure solutions
Trusted by Data Center Hyperscalers and Industry Leaders
When Microsoft embarked on their open-source, data center infrastructure design initiative Project Olympus, the main challenge they were trying to solve was getting their data centers online faster.
Their rack PDUs took 6-8 weeks to build and source. HARTING helped to develop separate, pre-built rack PDU cable assemblies which can be stored and deployed anywhere in the world within 2 weeks. Microsoft now uses these connectors (the
When Open Compute Project heard about our solution, they partnered with us to co-author the standard ORv3 PowerShelf connector. We've maintained this strong partnership for more than a decade.
The OCP Foundation is responsible for fostering, serving and seeding the OCP Community to develop new open solutions that can meet the market and shape the future.
Talk to the Data Center Connectivity Experts
If you’ve got questions about connectorization or our solutions' capabilities, our experts are ready to answer them. Contact our in-house engineers for technical guidance or design help and let us be the connector specialist extension of your team.
“HARTING is always at the forefront of interconnect technologies. And they’re always approaching us with new ideas to make our solutions better for our customers.”
Scott Neal
Director of Prefabricated Data Centers, Schneider Electric
