Perkins Liu is a senior research analyst on the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team of 451 Research, a technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers datacenter activities in China and datacenter technology more broadly. He joined S&P Global Market Intelligence in April 2021. Before that, Perkins had been in the datacenter industry in different roles for more than 20 years, most recently as a leader of strategy and business development for the cloud and service provider segment at Schneider Electric. Perkins’s research areas include supply and demand activities, market share analysis, industry growth projections, government incentives and regulation, and pricing dynamics of leased datacenters, as well as the technology innovation trend in datacenter industry. His recent research topics include alternative energy sources of datacenter and liquid cooling in datacenters. Perkins holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Beihang University and an MBA degree from the University of Rhode Island, where he was honored to join the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, the highest recognition in a business program accredited by AACSB International. He is fluent in Chinese.
The company is looking to fortify its position as a total solution provider for the datacenter industry. Liquid cooling is a focus, given the demand for high-density infrastructure, particularly for AI. Schneider Electric's stake in Motivair Corporation brings an advanced liquid cooling approach.
The company's reference design for the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 is regarded as a major advancement in supporting AI-driven datacenters. This collaboration addresses the demand for high-density liquid-cooled solutions, optimizing deployment speed, scalability and energy efficiency, and meeting AI workloads' cooling and power demands.
The Open Compute Project Foundation held another record-breaking Global Annual Summit. Artificial intelligence further strengthened its position as the biggest application on the OCP platform, demonstrated by the dominance of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 architecture on the expo floor.
The global IT infrastructure provider is offering various products, solutions and services focused on cloud computing, big data and AI, and is positioning itself to fully embrace the AI transformation. IEIT believes application-level innovation is vital to the AI industry's maturity, with full-stack innovation, data-driven strategies and industry collaboration being essential for advancement.
The provider of liquid cooling technology for datacenters secured another series B investment of $20 million from investment firm Tiger Global in September 2024, increasing the company's series B funding to $35 million. The new funding will be used to expand LiquidStack's manufacturing capability, enhance its direct-to-chip and immersion cooling product portfolio development, and widen its commercial coverage.
The company released its 2023 environmental, social and governance report detailing its ongoing sustainability efforts and ESG performance. GDS says that through implementing a diverse strategy for renewable energy replacement, its renewable energy usage had reached 38%.
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