Data Centre
From Lauraibm
In the News
- Efficient data centers make companies less green (7-Aug-07)
- Self-sustaining data centers almost a reality (6-Aug-07)
- EPA Urges Data Centers to Cut Power (6-Aug-07)
- Business disruption from power failures up 350% (30-Apr-07)
- How Green is IT's Future? (8-Aug-07)
- Green Tech Shops have a way to go (8-Aug-07)
- Green Grid keeps Eye on Prize (9-Aug-07)
Summaries
Full story: EPA Urges Data Centres to Cut Power (6-Aug-07)
At current rates, US data centres will double power consumption over the next four years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But if more efficient use were made of servers, this upward trend could be slowed or even reversed. In 2006, America's servers consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours, representing a cost of about $4.5bn and 1.5% of total electricity consumption in the USA. In a “best practice” scenario described by the EPA, in which data centres are aggressively consolidated and direct liquid cooling applied to servers and storage, there could be a decline in the energy curve down to a level of 45 billion kilowatt-hours. The EPA wants to investigate an Energy Star rating system for servers, but IT vendors are likely to be ambivalent about this.
Business disruption from power failures up 350%
Power failures accounted for 26% of all disruptions reported to SunGard in 2006, compared to just 7% in 2005.
Business disruption from power failures up 350% (30-Apr-07)
According to SunGard, power failures accounted for just 7% of IT disruptions in the UK in 2005, leaping to 26% in 2006. The UK boss of SunGard said: “With IT kit drawing more power than ever before, it is imperative that businesses plan for possible interruptions to their power supply.”
