Submer Tech pitch @user-pe6tl7wd9v at Expo2020 Dubai Spanish Pavillion 3-Feb-2022 part 1/3

13 Dec 2022 · 2 min

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In this pitch, Paul, co‑founder of Submer (referred to as Summer), outlines the massive and growing energy and water demands of modern data centers, noting that they already consume more electricity than India and could account for up to one‑fifth of global electricity by 2025‑2030. He highlights the resulting carbon emissions and the gap between current trends and the European Commission’s climate objectives. Paul then points to early backing from Spanish agencies (CDTI, ENISA) and the European Commission, which enabled Submer to move its technology from prototype to production‑ready units now being sold worldwide. He emphasizes the water intensity of data centers—equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool every two days—and frames this as a huge opportunity cost that Submer’s sustainable data‑center technology can address.

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Thank
you everyone for coming, really appreciate that. So I'm Paul, co-founder of Summer, and we help create data centers that make sense. Data centers, cloud, edge computing, all these things behind these screens that we are always attached to, and some of you also now. Basically, all these things consume massive amounts of energy, more than India as of today, and is expected to grow towards one fifth of the global electricity by 2025 to 2030. Every time we move forward, it shifts a little bit. It depends, but it's growing a lot. As you can see, everyone needs these connected devices, and digitalization is getting critical. This translates into Basically, a lot of emissions. So there is a huge gap between the current trends and the actual objectives, in this case from the European Commission, and we can help close this gap. That's why we have the support, and thank you very much for that, from the CDTI, the Spanish government, ENISA, and the European Commission, who trusted us at the beginning of the journey when the technology was not ready for the market. So we were able to bring the technology to production-ready units and now be selling worldwide. An average data center consumes the amount of water in an Olympic swimming pool every two days. It's crazy. Imagine in hot climates like this, and there is a massive opportunity cost. Basically, all this energy, all these megawatts of electricity that you feed into your data centers.