Using Energy-Efficient Technologies to Lower Operational Costs in High-Density Environment

Author

Gross, Peter ; Godrich, Kfir L.

Author_Institution

CEO & CTO, EYP Mission Critical Facilities Inc.

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

High-density server facilities have quickly become a widespread reality. Not only are they adding nearly 1 GW to the US economy load, but many of these major data centers are using this increase in power in a way that exceeds all market expectations. Past predictions for high-density servers racks in the year 2006 showed loads in the neighborhood of 8 KW, but today´s reality shows it is in the magnitude of 300% higher-and in some case even more, racks of 35 KW are installed and commissioned. Why are we so far ahead of the forecast for needed energy? Power-hungry processors and super-charged servers

Keywords

computer centres; computer power supplies; costing; network servers; 35 KW; 8 KW; US economy load; data centers; energy-efficient technology; high-density environment; market expectation; operational costs; power-hungry processor; super-charged server; Computational efficiency; Costs; Energy efficiency; High definition video; High performance computing; Load forecasting; Mission critical systems; Moore´s Law; Silicon; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2006. INTELEC '06. 28th Annual International

Conference_Location

Providence, RI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0430-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0431-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.2006.251651

Filename

4018153