Sumber : Detik.com | 19 Januari 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kebutuhan komputasi global terus melonjak seiring pesatnya adopsi layanan digital dan kecerdasan buatan (AI). Namun, di tengah pembangunan data center berskala raksasa yang mengonsumsi daya besar, mulai muncul perdebatan soal ukuran dan bentuk infrastruktur komputasi masa depan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selama satu dekade terakhir, data center identik dengan fasilitas besar menyerupai gudang yang memakan energi dalam jumlah masif. CEO Nvidia Jensen Huang bahkan menyebutnya sebagai pabrik AI, menegaskan perannya sebagai tulang punggung ekonomi berbasis machine learning, demikian dikutip detikINET dari Techspot, Senin (19\/1\/2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kini, sebagian pelaku industri mulai mempertanyakan apakah data center memang harus selalu berukuran besar. Munculnya micro data center dan edge data center menghadirkan pendekatan baru, dengan perangkat komputasi berukuran kecil yang bisa ditempatkan dekat pengguna, bahkan di ruang publik atau hunian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di Devon, Inggris, perusahaan bernama Deep Green menarik perhatian setelah memanfaatkan panas buangan dari data center berukuran setara mesin cuci untuk memanaskan kolam renang umum. Pendiri Deep Green, Mark Bjornsgaard, menyebut pendekatan ini sebagai arah masa depan. Menurutnya, bangunan publik berpotensi menjadi lokasi data center mini yang saling terhubung dan berbagi beban kerja sekaligus memanfaatkan panas sisa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eksperimen serupa juga mulai masuk ke ruang privat. Pada akhir 2025, sepasang warga Inggris mengungkap bahwa server kecil di gudang kebun rumah mereka digunakan untuk memanaskan rumah. Tak lama berselang, seorang profesor universitas menceritakan GPU AI di bawah meja kerjanya kini berfungsi ganda sebagai pemanas ruangan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meski perusahaan hyperscaler seperti Amazon, Google, dan Microsoft terus menggelontorkan miliaran dolar untuk membangun data center raksasa, analis telekomunikasi Benedict Evans menilai ada peluang besar bagi edge data center berukuran kecil yang ditempatkan dekat pusat populasi. Kedekatan fisik ini dinilai dapat menekan latensi dan meningkatkan respons aplikasi berat komputasi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pandangan serupa disampaikan Amanda Brock, pimpinan kelompok advokasi OpenUK. Ia menilai dominasi data center besar berpotensi memudar seiring waktu. Menurutnya, ruang kota yang terbengkalai seperti bangunan kosong dan toko tutup dapat diubah menjadi pusat data kecil yang saling terkoneksi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dalam jangka panjang, Brock juga memprediksi pemrosesan data akan semakin bergeser ke perangkat lokal, mulai dari ponsel, set-top box, hingga router rumah. Perubahan ini sejalan dengan tren AI yang mulai meninggalkan model raksasa menuju model yang lebih kecil dan spesifik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI and climate lead Hugging Face, Dr. Sasha Luccioni, menilai model AI yang dirancang khusus dan dijalankan secara lokal cenderung lebih efisien dan membutuhkan daya komputasi lebih rendah. Menurutnya, penggunaan data center besar secara terus-menerus semakin sulit dipertahankan dari sisi lingkungan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dari aspek keamanan, profesor keamanan siber University of Surrey, Alan Woodward, menilai sistem terdistribusi memiliki risiko yang lebih kecil. Data center kecil dinilai tidak menjadi titik kegagalan tunggal, berbeda dengan fasilitas raksasa yang bisa berdampak luas ketika mengalami gangguan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bahkan, konsep data center masa depan tak lagi terbatas di Bumi. CEO Ramon Space, Avi Shabtai, menyebut luar angkasa sebagai peluang baru untuk membangun data center kecil dan modular di orbit. Perusahaannya kini tengah mengembangkan teknologi untuk menguji konsep tersebut.\n\nTren ini menunjukkan bahwa di tengah kebutuhan komputasi yang terus meningkat, industri mulai mencari pendekatan yang lebih fleksibel, efisien, dan berkelanjutan, dengan ukuran data center yang tak selalu harus semakin besar.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Source: Detik.com | January 19, 2025 Global computing demand continues to surge with the rapid adoption of digital services and artificial intelligence (AI). However, amidst the construction of massive, power-hungry data centers, debate has begun to emerge about the size and shape of future computing infrastructure. For the past decade, data centers have been synonymous with large, warehouse-like facilities that consume massive amounts of energy. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang even referred to them as AI factories, emphasizing their role as the backbone of the machine learning-based economy, as quoted by detikINET from Techspot, Monday (January 19, 2026). Now, some industry players are beginning to question whether data centers need to be so large. The emergence of micro data centers and edge data centers presents a new approach, with small computing devices that can be placed close to users, even in public or residential spaces. In Devon, England, a company called Deep Green is attracting attention after utilizing waste heat from a data center the size of a washing machine to heat a public swimming pool. Deep Green’s founder, Mark Bjornsgaard, calls this approach the direction of the future. He believes public buildings have the potential to become locations for interconnected mini data centers that share workloads while utilizing waste heat. Similar experiments are also beginning to enter the private sphere. In late 2025, a British couple revealed that a small server in their garden shed was being used to heat their home. Shortly thereafter, a university professor revealed that the AI \u200b\u200bGPU under his desk now doubles as a space heater. While hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft continue to pour billions of dollars into building giant data centers, telecommunications analyst Benedict Evans believes there is a significant opportunity for small, edge data centers located near population centers. This physical proximity is thought to reduce latency and improve the responsiveness of computationally intensive applications. A similar view is shared by Amanda Brock, head of the advocacy group OpenUK. She believes the dominance of large data centers has the potential to fade over time. She believes that abandoned urban spaces such as empty buildings and closed shops could be transformed into small, interconnected data centers. In the long term, Brock also predicts that data processing will increasingly shift to local devices, from mobile phones and set-top boxes to home routers. This shift aligns with the AI \u200b\u200btrend away from giant models and toward smaller, more specific models. Hugging Face’s AI and climate lead, Dr. Sasha Luccioni, believes that custom-designed AI models run locally tend to be more efficient and require less computing power. He believes that the continued use of large data centers is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain from an environmental perspective. From a security perspective, University of Surrey cybersecurity professor Alan Woodward believes that distributed systems pose a lower risk. Small data centers are considered less likely to be a single point of failure, unlike giant facilities that can have widespread impacts if disrupted. In fact, the concept of future data centers is no longer limited to Earth. Ramon Space CEO Avi Shabtai calls space a new opportunity to build small, modular data centers in orbit. His company is currently developing technology to test this concept. This trend shows that amidst increasing computing needs, the industry is starting to seek more flexible, efficient, and sustainable approaches, with data centers not always having to be larger.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[184,289],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-bnbr","tag-data-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}