What does it take to strengthen sustainability for data center operations? Dell Technologies Inc. is on a mission to find out.
Dell’s JJ Davis talks with theCUBE about sustainability during Dell Technologies World.
The company has pursued several solutions to enhance sustainability for customers, such as next-gen servers that lower central processing unit power consumption, cooling innovations and advanced software management systems to improve energy optimization. Recycling materials can also play a key role, according to JJ Davis (pictured), senior vice president of corporate affairs at Dell.
“We talked about it in our press conference, and Michael [Dell] said, ‘Circularity and recycling are taking back old equipment when we sell new equipment,’” Davis said. “We’ve been doing this for as long as I’ve worked here, 25 years almost. It is really core because … when you upgrade, we need to help you do something responsible with that unit, and we need all the parts from within that unit or a server or a storage array because we want to turn trash into treasure.”
Davis spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Savannah Peterson at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Dell’s initiatives in support of environmental sustainability. (* Disclosure below.)
Cooling efficiency enhances sustainability
In pursuit of its sustainability goals, Dell added a number of cooling efficiency features to its product line in May. This included reductions in cooling energy use through an enclosed rear door heat exchanger and an integrated rack controller. The company is also looking closely at AI-based solutions to manage workload scheduling, according to Davis.
“With liquid cooling innovation, we now have the brand name PowerCool,” Davis said. “Going beyond that, how can you not just make the hardware and the optimized software more efficient, but schedule your software at the workload level? If you have a super-intensive workload, you can schedule it through agentic AI to run when the energy is available, and then your less-intensive workloads can run at higher peak times.”
Dell has also recently announced Concept Astro as part of its sustainability initiatives. This latest solution uses agentic AI and digital twins to enhance IT operations and improve energy consumption, according to Davis.
“We are working on AI for green,” she noted. “It’s not just how to make AI infrastructure more efficient, but what problems — big problems — can AI solve? You can apply them to healthcare and farming and all kinds of areas that are desperately needing this scale to solve these problems.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World:
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the primary sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or News.)
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