raritan presents green data centers around the world
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As cloud computing necessitates the use of more and more data centers on a global scale, technology firms have begun to embrace the use of renewable energy and other naturally available resources to increase efficiency and lower costs.TRANSCRIPT
BY RARITAN® | THE LEADER IN DCIM
According to Orange, the facility equates to “the annual domestic electricity consumption of a town of about 30,000 people”. It also features a “green wall”, which helps cool the building by drawing off heat via the moisture produced by the vegetation.
= 3,000 people
Originally used as a military base for the United States Department of Defense between 1963 and 1965, Server Farm Realty’s Titan Data Center is capable of blocking
electrical, mechanical or acoustic emanations which might unintentionally disclose sensitive data.
Kista, Sweden’s Interxion data center uses seawater cooling which is alleged to run
the company a paltry 3 cents per kWh for conventional air conditioning.
Titan Data Center - Moses Lake, WA
- Kista, Sweden
In addition to using evaporative cooling, an impressive 85% of its energy
is generated via hydroelectric power.
85%
The water is then stored in insulated tanks where it retains its temperature before being pumped through-out the facility during the day to cool the servers. This clever environmental hack allows the company to save
a significant amount on electricity bills.
With water flowing in between 40O and 54OF, the setup is said
to save the company a cool $1 million per year.
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- Lulea, Sweden
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Ideally located near the Arctic Circle, Facebook’s gigantic data center in Lulea,
Sweden relies on it’s surrounding atmosphere to deliver cold ambient air to its equipment.
Running entirely on hydroelectric power, the company claims a ratio of roughly 3:1 that of
conventional data centers when it comes to power needed vs power consumed for computing.
Apple - Maiden, North Carolina
Changhua, Taiwan
On any given day, the Maiden facility generates 60-100% of its renewable energy onsite via biogas fuel cells and two 20-megawatt solar arrays
-- the nation’s largest privately owned solar farm.
Remaining necessary power is purchased from entirely clean sources. The Maiden Data Center generates 167 million kWh of renewable energy onsite per year, enough to power 13,837 homes.
Google’s Taiwan data center is optimized for efficiency through the use of a nighttime cooling and thermal energy system. The system works by collecting and cooling water in the evening hours when temperatures (and electricity rates) are decreased.
- Arizona, US NSA - Ft Meade, Maryland, US
Designed to be environmentally conscious from the ground up, Chandler, Arizona’s NextFort data center employs
numerous innovations in power distribution, architecture and related schools to improve efficiency. According to CEO Mark Towfiq, the facility racks up about one quarter the
cooling costs of conventional data centers.
Never a stranger to controversy, the NSA’s mammoth data center in Ft Meade, MD is slated to be one of
the world’s greenest. The data center will use as much as 5 million gallons daily of recycled wastewater to cool down and power the facility, simultaneously maximizing available resources while minimizing environmental impact.
Orange’s Normandy - Val-de-Reuil, France
Eni Green Data Center - Pavia, Italy
Green High Performance Computing Center - Massachusetts, US
French telecommunications giant Orange S.A’s data center, dubbed ‘Normandy’, takes advan-tage of the region’s cool weather conditions by using ambient air to cool its computing equip-
ment for 11 months out of the year.
$1 Million/ year
save
Val-de-Reuil, France
Energy company Eni’s facility is said by the company to have the world’s best power usage effectiveness rating at 1.2.
Apple is one of the largest non-utility clean energy generation companies in the US, using 100% renewable energy across all of its
data centers and 75% at its corporate facilities.
PUE rating1.2
This is accomplished in part by using ambient air to cool servers in addition to restricting usage of non-computing energy as
much as possible (the lights only work when someone is keyed in to the building).
Eni claims that the data complex creates 335,000 fewer C02 emissions
per year when compared to a conventional data center.
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Residing in Holyoke, Massachusetts, this environmentally friendly data center uses a
variety of energy efficient processes to lower its carbon footprint.
These include air cooling the water used to pull heat from hot aisles, as well as using low fan pressure in its ventilation system to reduce power used by fans. Electricity consumed is
70% produced from hydroelectric generators.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
The facility is also outfitted with Bloom Energy Servers, or technologically advanced power cells which convert
fuel into electricity through a clean electro-chemical process rather than dirty combustion.
Topaz Data Center - Utah, US
The second phase of eBay’s Topaz Data Center deserves recognition for its 72,000 square feet of rooftop solar paneling which generates more than 900,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
generates more than 900,000 kilowatt hrs
of electricity per year.
Green Mountain Data Centre - Norway
The aptly named Green Mountain Data Centre is considered the greenest data center in the world on the basis of it’s
100% renewable energy usage and free cooling from nearby fjords.
Housed deep inside a mountain in a former NATO ammunition bunker, the
facility’s developers claim a “world class” power-safe effectiveness, reducing the
cost of operations by 30%.
100%
Other features include a rain collecting rooftop for the humidification process and white-painted walls to reduce the need for lighting. As a
result, the Wynyard data center is expected to reduce energy consumption by 40% versus comparably sized facilities while
producing about half the carbon emissions of a standard data center.
Hewlett Packard Wynyard - United Kingdom
- West Sussex, United Kingdom
Relying on 100% wind-sourced energy, HP’s innovative Wynyard data center also takes advantage of the surrounding climate to cool IT equipment, allowing the facility to go without air
conditioning for most of the year.
Rackspace’s newest data center was designed from the ground up to be green. The BREEAM-certified 130,000 square foot facility will use cutting-edge technolo-gies such as “indirect outside air” cooling which utilizes
specially designed heat exchangers to enable cooling without air entering the data hall.
Rackspace reports that this innovative new cool-ing method will lead to an 80% reduction in
operating energy expenditure.
80%reduction
Citi’s 230,000 square foot data center in Frankfurt Germany lays claim to being the world’s
first to achieve LEED Platinum status.
Data Center - Frankfurt, Germany
Green features include reverse osmosis water treatment to reduce sediment in its cooling towers, a vegetative green wall and
roof irrigated with harvested rainwater, and a design optimized for “free cooling” throughout 65% of the year, Citi estimates.
the cooling costs of
conventional data centers
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