Field analysis for sustainable data centres

With increasing concern over global climate change and rapid rise in energy consumption on the data-driven market, data centres are an important renewable energy target. As cooling contributes a substantial portion of the energy use of data centres, minimising the cooling energy demand in data centres is one of the main objectives for improving renewable energy. This paper investigates overall energy consumption and the energy efficiency of the cooling system for a data centre in Finland as a case study. The temporal energy consumption characteristics, cooling infrastructure and operation of the data centre are analysed. The main problems associated with cooling energy efficiency and the factors that may contribute toward higher efficiency are identified and further suggestions are put forward. Results are presented of an extensive evaluation of the energy performance of the study data centre with a view to energy recovery. The conclusion we can draw is that even though the analysed data centre demonstrat...

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