IONORA is planing to collaborate with energy providers to build an innovative and sustainable data centre that evaluates, implements, and tests synergies between data centres and energy producers/consumers. This initiative aims to reduce energy transmission losses, enhance redundancy concepts through proximity, and sustainably utilise waste heat with district heating networks and advanced liquid cooling systems.
The project also focuses on optimising cloud-specific infrastructure at the server rack level across the public to edge cloud continuum. It involves developing integrated cooling rack-scale designs, which are crucial for increasing energy efficiency, reducing CO2 footprints, and improving performance/cost ratios. This includes overhauling supply chains to minimise CO2 impacts and integrating open blueprints like Open19 and OCP to streamline hardware automation and telemetry for workload optimisation.
Additionally, IONORA is developing a provider-agnostic API for orchestrating cloud platforms that will enable its integration with edge infrastructures. This system incorporates AI to optimise workload impacts on infrastructure, focusing on reducing energy use and CO2 emissions.
Lastly, IONORA is establishing a Gaia-X compliant open cloud-edge PaaS layer to foster a sovereign European platform that supports rapid innovation cycles in various data ecosystems. This includes providing open-source services and developing a standardized runtime environment conducive to future ecosystem expansions.
