Data Center Electricity Usage Growth Slows
Posted by Player Pate on Mon, Aug 01, 2011 @ 03:23 PM
New statistics are showing that while consumers across the globe may still be leaving their light switches on, data centers are saving a bit more on electricity.
According to an independent report performed by Stanford University civil and environmental engineering department consulting professor, Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., electricity use in data centers has been lagging in the past five years, as opposed to 2000 to 2005, when data center electricity use doubled. From 2005 to 2010, electricity use rose about 36 percent in the U.S., and 56 percent worldwide.
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Nowadays, there are a number of methods to help data centers save exponentially on energy usage. In addition to virtualization and innovative designs such as hot and cold aisles of equipment, some data centers are turning to monitoring software.
For example, as reported by TMCnet, one company, JouleX, introduced new software that centrally monitors and controls the energy usage of any networked device in a data center – from core routers and switches to storage and power distribution units. Without the need for client-side agents or hardware meters, the software uses a unique discovery method to automatically find every device on the corporate network and then get a global view of energy consumption.
Yoy can read the full Green Technology World by TMCnet article here.