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
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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Based on Dell labs October 2025 internal testing. Actual results may vary.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Compared to power consumption and latency within current transceivers with DSP. Based on Dell internal testing, Santa Clara lab, April 23, 2025.