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Datacenters and The Environment
From The E.P.A August 2007
"During the past five years, increasing demand for computer resources has led to significant growth in the number of data center servers, along with an estimated doubling in the energy used by these servers and the power and cooling infrastructure that supports them. This increase in energy use has a number of important implications, including:
- increased energy costs for business and government,
- increased emissions, including greenhouse gases, from electricity generation
increased strain on the existing power grid to meet the increased electricity demand,
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increased capital costs for expansion of data center capacity and construction of new data centers.
For these reasons, there has been mounting interest in opportunities for energy efficiency in this sector. To its credit, the information technology (IT) industry is actively investigating and developing solutions, such as power-managed servers and adaptive cooling. "
"The energy used by the nation’s servers and data centers is significant. It is estimated that this sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption) for a total electricity cost of about $4.5 billion. This estimated level of electricity consumption is more than the electricity consumed by the nation’s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households (or about five percent of the total U.S. housing stock). Federal servers and data centers alone account for approximately 6 billion kWh (10 percent) of this electricity use, for a total electricity cost of about $450 million annually."
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Datacenters, The Environment and cpEngineers
We can evaluate your existing Telecom or Datacenter facility and provide a detailed analysis on how to run your Powering and Cooling systems more efficiently, whereby saving you operational costs and ultimately cutting back on the power consumption. We can advise how to make better use of the Powering and Cooling capacity that you have in place. If you have a Power or Cooling capacity issue we can identify "where you are" and "where you need to be" to reclaim N+1 redundancy for your facility.
More efficient Support Systems mean you save $$, your facility Support Systems are optimized, and you are helping save our Environment; since less energy is needed. It's a win win situation.
If
you are planning construction of a new Datacenter or Telecom facility, we can help plan for your future loads and energy requirements while taking local rebates into consideration.
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