Energy-Efficient Data Center

ENERGY-EFFICIENT DATA CENTER

Build a more energy-efficient data center

By partnering with Dell Technologies, you’re taking the first step to reducing costs and climate impact as you benefit from energy-efficient hardware, as-a-Service models, recycling services and more.

Leverage energy-efficient infrastructure

Boost energy-efficiency, streamline infrastructure, and benefit from adaptable cooling for your environment.

Servers

Reduce data center energy consumption and environmental impact with liquid-cooled server infrastructure, warm water cooling innovations, and intelligent rack-level management designed to maximize efficiency at scale:

  • Cut annual energy costs by up to one-third1 for large-scale AI deployments by combining direct liquid cooling with Dell's PowerCool eRDHx, which enables warm water cooling (32 °C – 36 °C) and reduces reliance on energy-intensive chilled water infrastructure.
  • Reduce datacenter rack footprint by up to 77%2 with PowerEdge liquid-cooled AI servers compared to air-cooled alternatives, achieving up to 4.5x GPU3 density per rack — delivering more compute per square foot with less physical infrastructure.
  • Safeguard against environmental risk with the Dell Integrated Rack Controller (IRC), which can detect rack-level leaks in as few as 74 seconds and react in as few as 34 seconds to leaks as small as 20 µL.

Storage

Take control of your data center’s energy costs with Dell storage solutions that shrink your footprint, reduce power consumption, and turn data into insights faster. The Dell storage portfolio delivers industry-leading data reduction, high-density capacity, and intelligent efficiency built in, so you can do more while spending less on space and energy.

  • PowerStore: PowerStore provides an industry-best 6:1 data reduction guarantee5 and delivers superior efficiency versus the competition.6
  • PowerMax: PowerMax is the industry’s most energy-efficient mission-critical storage7 and delivers up to 2.8x more performance per watt.8
  • PowerScale: PowerScale delivers NVIDIA-Cloud certified performance with up to 80% less rack space, 8x fewer switches, and 72% less energy — saving customers over $1.5 million in expected power costs alone.9

Networking

Improve network efficiency with high-performance fabric designs, energy-optimized switching, and low-power optical connectivity engineered for modern AI and data center environments.

  • Reduce fabric power consumption with linear pluggable optics (LPO) and co-packaged optics (CPO), which remove DSPs to cut transceiver power usage by up to 50%.10
  • Support dense, high-bandwidth AI fabrics with thermally optimized networking designs that improve cooling efficiency, provide liquid cooling, and help lower operational overhead.
  • Simplify large-scale deployments with integrated networking architectures that reduce infrastructure complexity, streamline management, and improve power and cooling utilization.

Telemetry Insights

With AI-powered sustainable insights, efficient hardware, and circular economy principles, Dell Technologies is your true end-to-end solutions partner in sustainability.
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Dell AIOps

Dell AIOps, included with ProSupport agreements, equips IT teams with AI tools and insights to enhance health, cybersecurity, and efficiency, allowing them to stay ahead with proactive observability, solve faster with predictive intelligence and gain clear insights for smarter management.
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OME

Manage PowerEdge servers at scale with OpenManage Enterprise (OME), a centralized console for monitoring, updating and automating server operations. Reduce manual effort, improve consistency and keep infrastructure running efficiently.
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iDRAC

Manage individual PowerEdge servers from virtually anywhere with the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). Secure, embedded management tools simplify deployment, monitoring and updates throughout the server lifecycle.

Integrate circular economy principles

Modernize your IT infrastructure with technologies designed with circularity in mind and delivered in sustainable packaging.
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Services for Efficient Data Centers

Get the expertise you need to create strategies for a more efficient data center with intelligent power and cooling management.
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Tech Refresh and Recycle

Tech Refresh and Recycle Program offers a free, secure, and sustainable solution for retiring outdated server and storage systems while supporting enterprise modernization.
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Asset Recovery Services

Streamline your IT refresh process with secure and responsible retirement of client equipment and servers, ensuring a smooth transition to new technology while meeting business and sustainability goals.
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Dell APEX

Optimize your IT environment and grow as your needs change with Dell APEX, enabling seamless scaling to reduce waste and improve efficiency.

Essential Resources

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Product Sustainability

At Dell Technologies, we're helping our customers drive positive solutions to achieve their sustainability goals through the power of innovative products and services designed to reduce waste, energy use and emissions.

Product Carbon Footprint Reports

Dell uses product carbon footprint (PCF) data to understand a product's impact on the environment, providing valuable insights to inform sustainable design.
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Modular Data Centers

Deploy technology at the edge or anywhere your data is generated with modularized, integrated racks, fully configured and ready to handle your IT needs now and for the long haul. 
Footnotes:

  1. Savings estimate assumes a large-scale AI deployment using liquid versus air cooling for equivalent number of servers and GPUs. Power values are based on industry averages and electricity cost is based on U.S. energy prices. PUE values are derived from best-estimates of air-cooled and DLC environments. eRDHx PUE derived from internal modeling. Estimated savings based solely on total IT power and not all required costs. Actual savings will vary. This is not a guarantee or offer, and Dell prices are subject to change.
  2. Based on July 2025 internal analysis of liquid cooling vs air cooling deployment for large AI deployment. Assumes 9x PowerEdge XE9680L liquid-cooled B200 nodes per rack compared to 2x 10U air-cooled B200 nodes per rack. Actual results may vary.
  3. Based on July 2025 internal analysis. Assumes a rack with 9x PowerEdge XE9680L liquid cooled nodes & 8x B200 GPUs per server compared to a rack with 2x 10U air-cooled B200 nodes & 8x GPUs per server. Actual results may vary.
  4. Based on Dell labs October 2025 internal testing. Actual results may vary.
  5. Based on Dell analysis comparing primary storage data reduction guarantees vs Dell’s Storage Data Reduction program – May 2026. 6:1 applies to PowerStore Gen 3 only. For details see: All-Flash Data Reduction Guarantee Terms and Conditions. Actual data reduction rates will vary.
  6. Based on Principled Technologies Report, commissioned by Dell, April 2025, comparing Dell PowerStore to comparable solutions from 5 major competitors running the same data set, using Vdbench. Actual results may vary. Full report found here
  7. Based on Dell’s analysis of published product specs and features impacting power usage of Dell PowerMax versus competitive mainstream arrays supporting open systems and mainframe storage operating at 8PBe, August 2025. Based on Dell’s internal analysis of cybersecurity capabilities of Dell PowerMax versus cybersecurity capabilities of competitive mainstream arrays supporting open systems and mainframe storage, April 2025. Based on Dell’s analysis of published product specs and features impacting power usage of Dell PowerMax versus competitive mainstream arrays supporting open systems and mainframe storage operating at 8PBe, August 2025.
  8. Based on Dell’s internal testing comparing IOPS per watt for PowerMax 2500 compared with PowerMax 2000 using the 8K random writes workload, July 2026. Performance per watt will vary.
  9. Based on Dell internal analysis of NVIDIA certified PowerScale F710 model, validated reference designs for 64 SU configurations that adhere to the NVIDIA Cloud Platform Reference Architecture specification for high-performance storage, August 2025. Power cost based on national Avg cost of power ($0.18kWh), estimated over a 3-year period.
  10. Compared to power consumption and latency within current transceivers with DSP. Based on Dell internal testing, Santa Clara lab, April 23, 2025.