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    Freely available CBTs for Data Centers - including Green Data Centers.
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    Interview with Michael Dell about Dell's Green initiatives.
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  • The Green Grid's board of directors includes Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Dell (Dell), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP), Intel (NSDQ: INTC), and VMware, and Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and EMC (NYSE: EMC) are on the list of contributors. With these technology power brokers on board, we're hopeful that the standards required for meaningful product comparisons can be agreed on.
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  • Datacenter-level power optimization



    This notion of workloads moving to match to changing thermal conditions is also being enacted at the datacenter level, with a suite of large-scale power-management technologies that Intel is working on in conjunction with a long list of partners (IBM and Microsoft among them). In a nutshell, the idea behind Intel's Group-Enabled Management System (GEMS) is much the same as what I described above for Polaris, except at the server level.



    GEMS servers are able to communicate with each other in order to move workloads around to units that are either underutilized or overheated. For instance, if an air conditioning unit goes out in one part of the datacenter, then those servers can use virtualization to pass their workloads on to servers in another location before switching themselves off.



    Individual servers that are running the GEMS agent can organize themselves into functional groups and elect a group leader that does thermal monitoring and power optimization for the entire group.

Kelly Hair

The Scale Out Advantage: Blog: EPA Data Center Guidelines: IT Power Use Is in the Spotlight... - 0 views

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  • No one would have guessed just a few years ago that data centers would be on the government's radar. But in an increasingly energy-conscious era, the EPA's attention was a spotlight just waiting to shine.  Current estimates are that 10- to 30 percent of IT budgets go toward paying the power bill.  And if Gartner research is correct, that figure could jump to 50 percent in a few years.
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    • Data centers consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, roughly 1.5% of total U.S. electricity consumption.
    • The energy consumption of servers and data centers has doubled in the past five years and is expected to almost double again in the next five years, to more than 100 billion kWh, costing about $7.4 billion annually.
    • Existing technologies and strategies could reduce typical server energy use by an estimated 25%, with even greater energy savings possible with advanced technologies.
  • We estimate that more than 70% of Global 1000 organizations will need new data center facilities during the next five years, which creates a short window of opportunity to build substantive energy efficiency into the data center infrastructure. The lack of a sense of urgency in this report could mean that this window will close without organizations taking any substantive action.



  • Enterprises should:



    • Use the findings of the EPA report as an incentive to start an energy efficiency audit to quantify the magnitude of the issue within their organizations.
    • Push suppliers to develop IT and facilities equipment that better balances performance and energy efficiency.
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    Results of the law to review data center electrical power consumption.
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  • First of all, most of these hosts do not directly help the environment by running off of alternative energy such as solar or hydro power. Most of these hosts that claim to be “green hosts” run off of conventional power sources. They can claim to be “green hosts” because they buy “green credits” that go to further the research on alternative power sources. These green credits are created when clean and renewable energy is used in place of oil, gas, or other “dirty” energy. So if a process like heating traditionally took 100 energy units to produce but now requires only 60 from traditional “dirty sources” and can use 40 “green credits” to substitute, then a surplus of 40 green credits gets added to the reserve. Green web hosts can then purchase these credits in order to offset the amount of “dirty” energy they have to use to power their servers and thus evens them out so they do not add any extra pollution to the environment. To find out more about how this “green credits” system works, go to

    http://www.cleanandgreen.us/what.php to learn the technical details of “green credits.”
  • An example of a host that does this is Dreamhost.com. Dreamhost states that since it is not practical to put giant solar panels everywhere to power its DC, they instead pursue this quick method of environmentally friendly hosting. It cost Dreamhost three days and several thousand dollars, but that is only a minute fraction of what it would cost to truly run a web hosting company on alternative energy.
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  • Our data center and office is green too by using environmentally friendly, low energy water based air conditioners, solar tubes to bring in natural light during the day, a propane powered generator instead of diesel (which most other hosting companies have), VMWare virtualization to reduce our server electricity usage, 6 watt energy saving desktop computers for our employees, and soon to be LEED certified as a green data center, the only public one in North America.
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