How to cut data centre power demand by 40 percent

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 09:29

Opinion and Analysis

The end result of the process is waste heat which in a convention cooling system is simply dissipated into the atmosphere. However Lasercharm intends to use this to heat a nearby, planned, 400 home 'eco village'

In a further green move, Lasercharm says that most of its power will come from a 38MW plant that wil use "100 percent carbon-neutral waste [straw and animal waste] as a power source." Lasercharm claims that ' The combination of the biomass plant, the Eco Village and the absorption cooling will probably establish Elean Data Campus as the most environmentally-friendly and cost-efficient data centre location in Europe."

 

A recent survey by the Aperture Research Institute (ARI) of more than 100 data centre professionals found most unable or unwilling to meet the expectations set by their adoption of green initiatives for the data centre. 74 percent of those surveyed refused to activate power saving features on devices if it would require a drop in performance. 37 percent of data centres had no plans to measure energy efficiency, and 76 percent did not charge the business for the power used by IT

ARI principal, Steve Yellen, said: "Although many organisations have made a commitment to cutting their environmental impact, when it comes to the data centre, most lack the tools and processes they need if they are to deliver on that promise." A March 2008, ARI report discovered that 70 percent of organisations surveyed were adopting green initiatives and that 19 percent of these had omitted the data centre from that programme. The report is available free from www.aperture.com