Who is the high energy-consuming hulk in the data center?

The energy crisis has grown louder and energy has become scarcer and more expensive. Power shortage, the engine room due to overheating equipment and frequent downtime, data center equals Barroth, rising energy costs, has become a huge burden on enterprises. Whether from the point of view of national Twelve-Five planning or the reduction of operational cost, data center energy saving has become a trend of future data center development. 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 the United States, data center energy consumption last year accounted for 2% of the total U.S. power grid. Data from the data centers now emit twice times more carbon dioxide than in the 2020-year aviation industry, according to McKinsey Research. The US has proposed closing 1100 data centers to reduce energy consumption. Without control, future data center energy consumption will rise in a straight line, energy consumption in just 2 years will far exceed the cost of data center self-built. As energy costs grow, how can we drive energy-saving emissions from data centers, and how to build greener data centers, and what are the greener solutions for today?

In fact, we have been around the data center of the whole life cycle, the whole industry chain for multidimensional exploration to promote the process of data center green. Companies, including Google and Microsoft, are looking for greener, more eco-friendly energy sources to power the data centers. At present, Google and Microsoft and Apple have started to solve the problem of energy consumption in the data center by building a new solar power system. In addition, Apple said it would use biogas to power its data centers. Microsoft has established its largest data storage center outside the United States in Dublin, and Microsoft says the center will use the chill of Ireland to cool its equipment. Yahoo, for its information, is announcing a new data center in Buffalo, New York, to completely use external air to cool the servers. Yahoo says the new data center will be the greenest, with carbon emissions up to 3721.html of >2014 to fall by 40%.

Research has pointed out that cloud computing can help reduce energy use by 38% over the next decade. Greenhouse-gas emissions will fall by 28% compared with this year's emissions levels. Energy spending can be greatly reduced by adopting a "clean" cloud computing technology. Currently, data centers emit about 2% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

It is clear that cloud computing, because of its high computing power, can drastically reduce energy use or achieve higher energy efficiency, will be the rescue data center of high-energy green Giant. Research by institutions such as Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gartner and Pike research shows that cloud computing offers hope to IT managers and businesses seeking higher economic benefits and business advantages. Experts predict that the number of traditional data centers will drop in the next few years, and the pace of change to cloud computing will accelerate.

The recent advent of the world's first low-energy PB-level cloud storage in the comprehensive consideration to improve the system performance optimization, but also in the large-scale, high-density, low-power and cost-effective demand on the full effort. The system has a single rack storage of raw capacity of 1.125PB large capacity, carrying 384 3TWD green disk, and the total power of single stand is only 4KW, single node power is only 10W, the total power of a single cabinet 3400W, in the data center electricity consumption deadlock today, configure such a high integration of the server, not only save space , reduce operating costs, the PB-scale low density low-power operating mode to create a green data center provides a broad use of ideas.

At present, the data center of the computer room management is moving towards the direction of precision. To the CIO of the enterprise, reducing these energy consumption not only improves the economic benefit of the enterprise, but also improves the social benefit. In the current trend of building energy-saving society, enterprises should be more clear about their social responsibility, through the construction of Green data center, effectively reduce energy consumption, energy conservation. The development of data center from early functional services to intelligent services and energy-saving services, low energy consumption, environmental protection of green data center will become the digital era of innovative themes.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)