Solar energy as a new source of data center

Data centers are large power consumers, but also lead to data center operating costs http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33196.html "> main reason." Reducing the power consumption of data center in order to improve the efficiency of data center, the rational use of new energy is the main way to reduce the operation cost of data center.
United States Solana Solar power field
For solar energy, Dr. Yuanpeng Data Center General manager Wang Kening once pointed out that the data center active use of solar energy, compared to traditional industries have many advantages: first, do not need to store energy, such as lighting needs to go through the battery, and battery production is not environmentally friendly, waste batteries also easily lead to pollution two times. Compared with the data center, the use of solar energy, how much hair, the summer sun, hair Point Peak is also the peak of electricity, just can make up for the shortage of mains power supply. Secondly, the solar power is direct current, data center equipment can be used DC power supply technology, in line with the direction of development; Finally, the country's funding for green energy helps the data center recover its investment costs as quickly as possible.
According to foreign reports, the United States is also actively exploring new energy use. Near Phoenix, Abengoa has built a team of solar arrays that generate 280 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 70,000 households in the United States. The Arizona, State Public Service (APS) signed a 30-year solar power purchase agreement with Abengoa.
The solar array, partially funded by the US Department of Energy, is the largest solar energy storage power plant in the United States, and its thermal energy continues to provide 6-hour power supply. Its 3,200 mirrored parabolic collectors cover an area of 3 square miles and each collector is 500 feet long, 25 feet wide and 10 feet high.
The power station can reduce emissions by 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to Abengoa, the federal government has provided 1.45 billion of billions of dollars in collateral. The establishment of the factory created more than 2000 jobs.