Comments: Cloud data center don't degenerate into image engineering

Another message about the datacenter. March 28, the Xiamen government and China Telecom Fujian Company formally signed a joint http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13644.html "> Cloud Computing Center Cooperation, At the same time, China Telecom Fujian Company Cloud Computing Data Center. The news came as governments around the world built large cloud computing data centers.

With the development of cloud computing, a series of data center building has sprung up, a group of large-scale data center planning is being developed. This is reminiscent of the scene of the early development of the Internet of things, many local governments have built the Internet industrial park, attracting investment to stimulate local economic development, the result is a high-rise, but empty, become the government's "image project."

Admittedly, data centers are essential for cloud computing. However, in the early days of cloud computing, is it possible to build a data center project on such a large scale? Moreover, how many of the data centers that have been built are functioning?

It is understood that a lot of data center resources waste of resources, but also consumes a lot of energy. So, in my opinion, it is now necessary to pour some cold water on the "mania and blindness" of the data center. Can not blindly pursue the volume and scale of data centers, must be integrated planning, step-by-step.

At present, in the United States has begun to be led by the Government, integrated planning, reasonable construction of data centers. The first step is consolidation, reducing the country's 2000 data centers to 1200, while appropriately expanding the size of each data center and integrating resources according to cloud computing needs.

This provides the reference experience for our country's data center construction. China is in the rapid development of data center, the government needs to use cloud computing as the quasi-axis of the top-level planning, to avoid duplication of construction. At the same time, data center construction must advocate energy saving and emission reduction.

Data Center as a large consumer of energy, electricity consumption is increasing every year. Data show that in 2011, China's data center total power consumption of 70 billion-kilowatt, has accounted for the whole society's electricity consumption of 1.5%, the equivalent of the 2011 Tianjin total consumption.

In order to promote energy conservation and emission reduction in the data center, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (PUE), in its "industrial energy saving" Twelve-Five plan, proposed that by 2015, the value of data center should be reduced by 8% target. The National Development and Reform Commission and other organizations such as "Cloud computing Demonstration Project" also requires the demonstration project construction data Center Pue to reach 1.5 below. The author also calls on all over the government to co-ordinate the construction of Green data center, to promote the real development of cloud computing, to avoid the cloud computing data center into the government's "image project."

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)