TELEHOUSE GREEN DATA CENTERS NATURAL BORN COOLER |
Posted: March 29, 2017 |
How the Adiabatic Process Enhances Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Every time you watch Drake’s latest music video on YouTube, Google stats for your fantasy football team, or send a message through company email, a data center – whether located in Chicago or Dublin – expends electricity. It takes an enormous amount of electricity to power and cool a data center. Worldwide, these facilities consume roughly 30 billion watts of electricity. To put that figure in perspective, that’s the equivalent output of 30 nuclear power plants – enough to power all of the households in Italy, a country with a population of nearly 60 million people. Accounting for one-tenth of the world’s electricity usage, the digital economy is leaving an exceedingly large energy footprint on the environment, as well as an increasingly gaping hole in the pockets of data center owners and operators. Eighty-two percent of overall data center infrastructure cost is spent on power distribution and cooling. Scandinavia’s Data Center Express One way to increase the energy efficiency of a data center is the decision of where to build it. Facebook recently launched a new data center in Lulea, a town in a remote corner of northern Sweden, to help reduce costs associated with cooling. Given Lulea’s naturally low year-round temperatures, this facility requires 70 percent less mechanical cooling capacity than the average data center. Across the border in Finland, Google operates a similar facility in the town of Hamina, using wind power and frigid water from the Gulf of Finland to cool its computers. In Norway, underground tunnels linking data halls in the Green Mountain Data Center use the chilly waters from a nearby fjord to support its cooling system. However, what if your data center isn’t located in Scandinavia, but in Dubai or Phoenix, where summertime temps can rise to well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit? Ideally, data centers try to keep server room temperatures at 72 degrees with a 48 percent humidity level. Hot climates pose a particularly difficult challenge to cooling data centers, significantly impacting operational expenditures and making them more prone to expensive outages. Continue to original source... Contact Details:
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