Green Data Center Market to Reach $41B Annually by 2015. This is an archived story. The information and any links may no longer be accurate. The investment in greener data centers will experience rapid growth over the next five years, increasing from $7.5 billion in global revenue to $41.4 billion by 2015, representing 28% of the total data center market, according to a new report from Pike Research. The IT industry is responsible for around 2% of the world’s carbon emissions and data centers are the fastest growing part of that footprint. While energy efficiency has not traditionally been a major emphasis for IT organizations, the industry is now highly focused on implementing solutions that will reduce energy expenses and carbon emissions associated with data center operations. “Cost of energy has seldom been a concern for IT departments in the past,” says industry analyst Eric Woods, “and there was little incentive to invest in energy efficiency improvements.
In June, the EPA launched Energy Star certification for data centers. Facebook Doubles Size of Data Center Before It's Even Built: Tech News « Surge in Internet use has tech firms seeking power. By Kevin J. Delaney and Rebecca Smith The Wall Street Journal With both Internet services and power costs soaring, big technology companies are scouring the nation to secure enough of the cheap electricity that is vital to their growth. The search is being led by companies including Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp. Big Internet firms have been adding thousands of computer servers to data centers to handle heavy customer use of their services, including ambitious new offerings such as online video. But that is feeding a thirst for more power.
Some Internet executives say electricity has become a closely watched expense and can even be a factor when they consider rolling out new services. To satisfy their power needs, Internet companies are exploring options ranging from building facilities in former defense bunkers -- which already have rugged grid connections -- to plunking themselves down near hydroelectric plants to get a slice of the inexpensive power. Mr. Data Centers Power Up Savings With Renewable Energy. New data center projects are taking a closer look at renewable energy sources including solar and wind as a way to improve corporate sustainability, cut energy use and reduce operational costs.
As an example, developers of the Sonoma Mountain Village will dedicate more than 1 megawatt of solar power to a data center project at its Rohnert Park, Calif. campus, a mixed-use community combining offices, retail and housing, reports Data Center Knowledge. The solar array generates 1.14 megawatts of power, and is expected to power the facility for at least 270 days a year. Sonoma Mountain told Data Center Knowledge the solar installation, which is located next to the data center, will be able to support up to 250 racks in Data Center Suite 1.
The first phase will be powered by an existing 83,000-square-foot solar array, which has been online since 2006 and currently powers office buildings that house AT&T and Comcast, according to Data Center Knowledge. LEED Gold and Energy Star compliant - West Coast Data Center – Seattle, WA. Royal Pingdom » US data centers consuming as much power as 5 million houses. Posted in Tech blog on July 25th, 2008 by Pingdom There have been a lot of numbers thrown around in the last year about the power consumption of servers and data centers. For example, servers and their cooling are now said to consume more power than color TVs in the US. To try and make a bit more sense out of the general information overflow, we here at Pingdom decided to put together some interesting facts and figures from different sources and add some calculations of our own to hopefully give a decently clear picture of the current situation.
How much power does ONE data center use? One large, 50,000 square feet data center consumes around five megawatt of power.Five megawatt is enough to power 5,000 houses. Of course, there are data centers that use significantly more power. For example, Equinix is said to be building a data center with a server farm consuming up to 30 megawatts, which would be enough to power 30,000 houses. How much power do all data centers consume in total?
Sources: Corporation | News | Sabey Corporation to construct second data center in North Central Washington. NSA to build massive $1.6 billion data center in Utah - Data center facilities pro. Home > IT Blogs > Data center facilities pro > NSA to build massive $1.6 billion data center in Utah ACRHIVED. Please visit our new blog at: et.com/data-center/ « Yahoo! To reportedly turn data center 10 degrees for better cooling Equinix wins energy savings award from Silicon Valley group » NSA to build massive $1.6 billion data center in Utah Last week President Barack Obama signed a war spending bill that, among other things, gets the ball rolling on a massive National Security Agency data center that is estimated to cost $1.6 billion over the next four years.
The data center would be built at Camp Williams, a military base just south of Salt Lake City. Installed infrastructure will support 65MW technical load data center capacity for future expandability. Congress last week passed and Obama signed the bill authorizing the start of the NSA data center construction, with initial spending approval for $169.5 million. I think that this till work.. Data Center Power Consumption: By the Numbers | Green Light : Greentech Media. Here are some handy stats on power consumption in data centers Data Center Energy Summit taking place at Sun Microsystems today. Casually drop these factoids at your next cocktail party.
Less than nine months: that the time it takes to recover the cost (in terms of lower electrical bills) for putting variable speed fans in a server rather than a fan that runs at a constant, high rate, according to Mukesh Kattar, energy director at Oracle. He tested it and thought payback would take 16 months, The fans, though, only had to operate at 55 percent of their regular speed on average, he said. 1 to 1.8.
That's the ratio of power dedicated to support (air conditioning and cooling) compared to the power dedicated to actually running the server when you install these kinds of fans, Kattar added. In a regular situation, the ratio is 8 to 10. He's aiming for a 1 to 3 ratio. 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Data Center Sizing: Watts per Square Feet? kW per Cabinet? Megawatts? | LinkedIn Answers. Google Data Center's Massive Energy Appetite | Computing. Although Google still lags in total value behind Microsoft, it's no overstatement to say that Google is the most ambitious tech company out there, and every peep, large or small, that creeps out of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters garners some interest.
Case in point: over the weekend, the British newspaper the Guardian published the tantalizing statistic that Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, could use as much energy as the entire city of Newcastle, England when it comes fully online in 2011. (Secondary case in point, in re: the perpetual interest in All Things Google: I blogged earlier today about their goat-grazing project on the Mountain View campus.) As the world's top-ranked website, it's no surprise that Google has massive data needs.
But for much of its history the company has been highly secretive about almost anything it considered proprietary, as I found when I interviewed Urs Hölzle in 2007. To put that number into more U.S. How to Select a European Colocation Data Center - Brand Republic. Data Center Knowledge: Data centers, design, power, cooling. Data Center - 10,000 cows can power 1 MW data center, says HP Labs. Big data centers = big environmental footprints | Servers and Storage | TechRepublic.com. Verizon data center project to benefit from 25 megawatts of low-cost hydropower. Senator George Maziarz (R-C, Newfane) today announced that that Verizon has been awarded a low-cost hydropower power allocation of 25 megawatts as an incentive to construct a multi-billion dollar data center in the Town of Somerset.
“This Verizon project promises to bring massive capital investment and job creation to Western New York,” said Senator Maziarz, who attended today’s meeting of the New York Power Authority Trustee’s meeting at the Niagara Power Project. “More than 500 construction jobs, close to 200 permanent, high tech jobs with impressive salaries—that’s the kind of economic development we desperately need in our region.
We are one step closer to landing this project, and we need to continue working hard to put all of the pieces together. " Senator Maziarz has been in close talks with Verizon officials and local government and economic development officials as he strives to move this project forward. Northeast Data Center Adds 7 Megawatts of Flywheel Capacity. Materials to be presented at investor meetings during November 2007. Definition of non-GAAP financial measures This presentation includes certain non-GAAP financial measures that management believes are helpful in understanding our business, as further described below.
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Digital Realty’s 225 Megawatt Data Center « Data Center Knowledge. {*style:<i>By: Rich Miller November 27th, 2007 </i>*} in Share Earlier this month Digital Realty Trust told securities analysts that its top 15 properties had a total capacity of 733 megawatts of utility power – an average of nearly 49 megawatts per facility. The company provided additional detail in an SEC filing that included its latest investor presentation, itemizing the power capacity for each of those 15 sites. Nearly a third of that power capacity is found at a single data center campus in Northern Virginia. Digital Realty (DLR) says its project on Devin Shafron Road in Ashburn has 225 megawatts of power capacity. Digital Realty says for other properties have power capacity of 40 megawatts or more, including the huge Internet gateway building at 350 East Cermak Road in Chicago (100 megawatts) and a new facility in Piscataway, N.J. (44 megawatts).
To Add Two Megawatts to Los Angeles Data Center. Denver, CO – August 28, 2009 – National data center, colocation and peering provider, CoreSite, announced today a planned two megawatt expansion of its Los Angeles data center located at 900 N. Alameda. The additional capacity is scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2010. The Los Angeles data center expansion is CoreSite’s third since June, with additional capacity increases occurring at CoreSite’s downtown Chicago and Northern Virginia data centers. The Los Angeles project will address growing enterprise demand for move-in-ready data center space in the downtown area.
The space could be delivered as a private data center suite for a single enterprise customer, or partitioned to allow cage-to-cabinet colocation. CoreSite continues to focus on energy efficiency in data center design and construction. “We continue to see enterprises outsource their growing data center requirements,” commented David Dunn, senior vice president at CoreSite. MegaWatt Consulting - Your Data Center and Energy Experts. Data Center Trends: More Machines and More Megawatts: Tech News « Yesterday I visited with CoreNap, a local co-location facility here in Austin, Texas, to understand how trends like energy consumption, the down economy and cloud computing might be affecting its business. After learning that I was standing in the same data center that hosted servers for famous Web 1.0 flops such as Garden.com, and that the two guys chatting with me had actually built most of the data center themselves, I was even more eager to hear their perspective.
I interviewed Kenneth Smith, CEO of CoreNap, and Frank Bieser, the CFO and CMO, and learned that in the 14 years the two have been hosting servers and providing bandwidth, power consumption has gone up to more than a megawatt per day, and that in general customers can fit a lot more computing power in a smaller space. Phoenix ONE Data Center gets massive 4.5 megawatt rooftop solar array. Data centers consume massive amounts of power, but they’ve also got wide expanses of flat rooftop that could be prime real estate for capturing solar energy. One data center has decided to put its 528,000-square-foot rooftop to work, installing a huge solar array that will produce three times as much renewable energy as the solar panels on the roof of Googleplex, which currently has the largest system of any data center in the U.S.
The Phoenix ONE Data Center will install the first phase of 5,000 solar panels later this year, to be operational by January. This phase will generate 500 kilowatt-peak (kWp), and will be expanded in four additional phases during 2010 to reach a total capacity of 4.5 megawatts-peak. The plant will save even more energy by operating its A/C chillers at night, when power is less expensive, and storing the energy in on-site thermal storage facility to provide cooling during the day. How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts « Data Center Knowledge. One of the data center facilities at the Digital Realty campus in Santa Clara, Calif. At a time when the industry is debating the appropriate use of metrics like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Digital Realty Trust has produced some real-world data to illustrate how improved efficiency can save power and money. Digital Realty recently released results of an energy audit of customer power usage at its data center campus in Santa Clara that houses servers for companies including Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo.
Digital Realty found that the customer data center space at the campus was operating at an average PUE of 1.6, despite using just 53 percent of the available power. PUE measurements tend to improve as a data center nears full utilization, which is one reason why large users such as Google report industry-leading ratings in the 1.1 to 1.2 range. Optimized vs. What’s an ‘Average’ PUE? Digital Realty said it was somewhat surprised with its PUE numbers. Data Center Leasing: It’s All About the Megawatts « Data Center Knowledge. The growing importance of electric power is remaking the business of leasing data center space, with megawatts replacing square feet as the primary benchmark for real estate deals. “Our business is all about leasing access to power,” said Michael Foust, the CEO of Digital Realty Trust, the largest data center developer landlord.
“The square footage is almost secondary in some cases.” DuPont Fabros Technology, another large developer of wholesale data center space, now describes all its leases in megawatts in its financial reporting. As data centers consume more power, electricity is the benchmark that matters, according to DuPont Fabros president and CEO Hossein Fateh. “Any customer that needs a megawatt – that’s 4,000 servers – better be ready to talk power, or they’re not even qualified to have that job,” Fateh said earlier this year. “What we’re charging for is the availability of power.”
It’s not just the cloud-builders that are making decisions based on power. Microsoft’s 198 Megawatts of Motivation « Data Center Knowledge. The Greening of the Data Center - IT Infrastructure - News & Reviews. Data center energy use: truth versus myth. Data Center Power Consumption on the Rise, Report Shows - IT Infrastructure - News & Reviews. Ganging Up on Power and Cooling - IT Infrastructure - News & Reviews.
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