Data Centers Suck Down Energy, Mostly for AC (Seattle P-I)
In follow-up to my earlier article "How Green is Your IT?" here's an AP article on cooling data centers.
Denis Du Bois
August 10, 2007
August 10, 2007
The Associated Press story ran in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (where I write another blog simply called "Energy"). The story is about the energy consumption associated with cooling a data center.
Data centers suck down energy, mostly for AC (Seattle P-I)
"Depending on the configuration and the equipment involved, as little as 30 to 40 percent of the juice flowing into a data center is used to run computers. Most of the rest goes to keeping the hardware cool, since heat saps performance."