Integrated solar power plant in Data Center

Electricity is a costly commodity which is a basic requirement in today's world. The need for energy conservation and alternative generation is very much looked upon to substitute the conventional generation which are challenged by limited resources and the adverse effects of carbon emissions. Data Center is a facility which houses IT servers and it supported systems. It is one of the infrastructures which is energy intensive. In 2013, U.S. data centers alone consumed an estimated 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equivalent to the annual output of 34 large (500-megawatt) coal-fired power plants. Data center electricity consumption is projected to increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours annually by 2020, the equivalent annual output of 50 power plants, costing American businesses $13 billion annually in electricity bills and emitting nearly 100 million metric tons of carbon pollution per year [1]. This paper proposes an integrated solar power plant architecture with the Tier III design standardized by the Uptime Institute bringing scope to renewable energy in data centers. This makes data center more greener in technology than the conventional architectures.