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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. | 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. | ||
Current revision as of 10:16, 15 November 2007
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.
