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Three solutions that offer a ‘green’ route towards energy efficiency improvements
It’s been said many times over, but data centres are crucial to modern day operations. Whether that’s an ecommerce site or a governmental initiative, their reliance on data centres to maintain business continuity is vital.
That means businesses are now increasingly more connected, with some operating 24/7, across all regions in the world, which in turn puts more pressures and a drain on energy resources and compute capacities.
With climate change being such a hot topic, operators are now quickly realising that there is an urgent need to increase the energy efficiency of data centres and reduce their environmental impact.
However, a balance must be maintained between complexity of implementation, costs, and overall energy efficiency, whilst delivering the fastest ROI. Indeed, there are many routes to greater efficiency, reducing power, and “going green” in the data centre, however, some suggested solutions are more complex/costly to implement or difficult to achieve than others.
Here I will outline three solutions that offer a ‘green’ route towards energy efficiency improvements.
Geothermal systems
Cooling takes up a large proportion of a data centre‘s power requirements. In fact, it is the primary source of energy consumption in most conventional data centres, with up to 30% of electricity usage going towards sustaining and operating a server below 26 degrees Celsius.
One way to reduce energy consumption quickly and efficiently is to replace traditional cooling solutions with geothermal systems that make use of the cold water found underground, in those area that allow you to have it in the amount you need.
Rack cabinets housing the servers can also be equipped with customised cold air containment systems to guarantee maximum energy efficiency and a comfortable working environment. As an example, this is what is currently used to power the entire air-conditioning system for the data rooms across Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Centre campus, making the system extremely energy and cost-efficient.
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