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Aiming to implement this at different levels , GDH is looking to AI to support the company with preventive and corrective maintenance . Using data collected from its centres and machinery , GDH will be able to be more proactive with its maintenance activities , ultimately reducing expenditure .
“ On top of that , we are looking towards AI that can give you the failure rate of certain equipment . We hope this will help us predict if and when there will be a failure in our chiller or a failure in our transformer . There are a lot of different ways data will help us in optimising facility management ,” says Mohammed .
GDH ’ s ambitious expansion plans Not only do GDH have ambitious technological and sustainability goals , but the company is also embarking upon a significant expansion plan .
There ’ s no doubt that the pandemic caused a rapid uptake in the need for data centre facilities . Data centre growth has been driven by increased company awareness of the benefits that cloud services can provide and increased pressure from the boards to provide more secure , robust IT environments , along with the setup of local data centres across the world .
According to Deloitte , the need for colocation facilities will only grow as more and more companies look to bolster their IT capabilities ; for GDH , the uptake was more than ten times what it predicted .
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