New Categories for Standards in Data Centers Considering Effects Over Electronic Devices

Nowadays, the data center industry is very well standardized for the design, construction, and operation, being the UPTIME institute since 1995 and ICREA since 1999 the main institutions leading standardization in the western. The fast advances in the high technology which involves data centers infrastructure and management drive those standards to be updated periodically, including the new organizations producing standards for datacenters. However, those standards are focused on commercial data centers on Earth, not considering data centers for special applications which are changing to be commercial eventually. In this seminal paper a topic for frontier research and applications are faced, and four new categories of data centers are proposed to be included and outlined in the scope for international standards, such as underwater Earth data centers which will be delivered commercially this year. Also, the high-altitude Earth data centers and data centers in space (Low Earth Orbit) which are a reality today for scientific research, and data centers on the Moon and Mars surface which are under design and will be a reality this century. The space miner and the interplanetary internet projects could be benefited from the best practices offered in the commercial industry in the Earth and could be positively applied in specific applications data centers. Data centers in high altitude and space experiments some challenges, the main one is the radiation effects over electronics.