430,000 energy consumption in China data center is the biggest challenge

March 16 News, in the "http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13638.html" > Cloud Computing Development and Policy Forum, the second high-end conference and Forum results Conference, Li, senior engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, said that at present, the total number of data centers in China about 430,000, can accommodate about 5 million servers. One of the operating data center room 921, an area of about 880,000 square meters, the number of cabinets about 177,000, can accommodate about 2 million servers.

Li said that in the next 5 years, China's data center capacity to deal with the demand will grow 7-10 times, the room size can be doubled to meet the demand.

With the development of cloud computing, the improvement of data center construction, the problem of energy consumption has become the biggest challenge. And recently published by the Ministry of Industry, "industrial energy Saving" Twelve-Five "plan" estimated that by 2015, the electronic information industry increased the value of energy consumption than 2010 down 18%.

Data show that in 2011, China's data center total power consumption reached 70 Billion-kilowatt, accounting for the whole society's electricity consumption 1.5%, equivalent to the 2011 Tianjin electricity consumption.

According to the plan, the value of data center Pue (all energy consumed by the data center and it load) decreased by 8% by 2015, by pushing for the two-process integration project.

But there is always a gap between ideals and reality. Li said that China has not yet set up a unified data center Energy Efficiency Index system, but also lack of corresponding assessment criteria, so that data center published energy efficiency data can not accurately reflect the real energy consumption level, the different data centers of energy efficiency between the results are also lack of comparability.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)