Scale Your Data Center Design
Data centers power today’s digital economy. Hyperscale and colocation data center operators are under enormous pressure to scale their operations to satisfy rapidly growing demand, particularly for high performance compute and AI workloads. With our experience in top-tier data centers, Honeywell helps operators meet challenges in accelerating the build of a standardized global fleet. Our proven solutions help optimize facility uptime, improve efficiency, reduce carbon footprint and help protect workers, data and assets.
Data Center Solutions that Drive Outcomes
Improve Uptime and Resilience
Uptime and resilience are the names of the game for data centers. You need all the help you can get to protect your mission—to critically operate and anticipate, avoid and minimize unplanned downtime. Our integrated, open framework solutions help improve reliability of critical infrastructure systems and help your data center operate at its peak.
Optimize Carbon Reduction and Efficiency
Efficient operation is vital for your data center. For years, customers have turned to Honeywell to enhance critical infrastructure performance. Our data center experience enables us to proactively optimize end-to-end operations through advanced analytics, helping deliver actionable insights while managing energy costs and carbon footprints. Our broad innovation, derived from helping solve some of the toughest problems in the world’s largest industries, includes renewable fuels, smart microgrids, battery energy storage systems and green hydrogen solutions.
Enhance Safety and Security
Protecting employees is paramount for data center managers, as is safeguarding irreplaceable data and physical assets. Honeywell delivers solutions ranging from vital fire and life safety systems to multi-level physical security and access control technologies. In addition, our cybersecurity solutions can help you prevent operations technology (OT) cyberattacks, avoid operational disruptions and comply with cybersecurity standards.
What We're Doing In Data Centers
What's Next In Data Centers
To prevent downtime in data centers, technology like early smoke detection systems, energy storage solutions, predictive maintenance and redundant infrastructure for power and cooling should be considered. 40% of organizations have experienced a significant, serious or severe IT service outage that was caused by human error over the past three years, highlighting the need to automate standardized procedures and workflows as well as to use integrated monitoring to help maintain uptime.2
To choose the right data center solutions for your business, start with identifying and evaluating data center providers. It’s important to look beyond just buying point-solution and work with a partner that can support a full project lifecycle, from design and integration to ongoing service. Look for a partner with experience in integrating systems to help improve reliability and reduce complexity, as well as a track record of delivering projects on time and on budget. Ask providers for case studies, on-time delivery rates and details about how systems are monitored and supported over time.
Lifecycle design can help data centers optimize energy use and environmental impact by addressing efficiency at every stage, from site selection and thermal management to automation solutions and waste heat reuse. A data center with a well-planned lifecycle approach can lower carbon footprint by up to 69% using commercially proven technologies, compared to traditional designs that focus only on minimizing power usage efficiency (PUE).3 Improving energy efficiency doesn’t just lower carbon footprint – it also helps reduce operating costs and prevent downtime by keeping systems running more reliably.
A PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) is designed for high-performance, mission-critical systems like power infrastructure and chiller plant management in data centers. It offers fast response times and built-in redundancy. A DDC (Direct Digital Controller) is well suited for non-critical HVAC systems, such as office or lobby spaces, and typically includes pre-built templates for ease of setup. Many data centers benefit from a hybrid controller approach, basing selection on the specific performance and reliability needs of each use application.
Advanced smoke detection is critical in data centers because high airflow systems can dilute smoke, making early signs of fire harder to detect. Without fast and accurate detection, even small incidents can escalate quickly, leading to equipment damage, data loss and costly downtime. Early warning systems, like lithium-ion battery off-gas sensors, aspirating smoke detection and smart alarm panels, can provide more lead time to respond, helping protect sensitive infrastructure and maintain uptime.
Solving some of your toughest challenges in automation, aviation and energy transition.
Automation
Solutions that help improve critical data center infrastructure reliability, helping avoid downtime and increase resilience.
Future of Aviation
Solutions that help make travel safer, smarter and more efficient from the runway to the cockpit.
Energy Transition
Solutions that accelerate the shift to more efficient energy sources, optimize consumption and reporting software for carbon and emissions management.
Underpinned by our digital solutions and technology innovations, including Honeywell Forge.
Purpose-built AI to help rapid onboarding and operational efficiency.
Browser-based, persona-driven applications that drive real business outcomes.
Integrate assets from multiple vendors in a common system of record.
Honeywell specializes in OT-specific cybersecurity services and products that help mitigate threats and manage compliance.
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1 Uptime Institute, “2022 Outage Analysis,” 2022. [Accessed December 19, 2024]
2 Uptime Institute, “Executive Summary, Annual outage analysis 2025,” May 2025. [Accessed May 6, 2025]
3 Honeywell, “Design for More Efficient Data Centers,” March 2025. [Accessed August 26, 2025]
