Green IT Data Center

INTRODUCTION
Green Technology :

Use of technology in such a manner that it will not affect the environment and will not harm the natural resources. Green technology is also referred as Clean Technology. They should be environment friendly.

Why Green Technology in IT sector ?

The computer has three different stages and every stage of Computer creates environmental problems

Manufacturing Stage

Various electronic and non electronic components consumes electricity, raw materials and water, and generates hazardous waste and this increased carbon dioxide emissions and impact the environment.

Why Green Technology in IT sector ?

PC in Use
Every PC generates about a Ton of Carbon dioxide every year Energy Consumption increased day by day

Disposal stage

Computer components contain toxic materials and it polluting the earth and contaminating water at time of disposal

IT Data Center
IT data center consists of

Servers Cores and Processors Server Processing Capacity

Basic building Block of Data Center as shown in figure

Power from Utility is fed to switchgear

Switchgear distributes power in between IT infrastructure and Cooling Infrastructure.

Energy demands for data center is broadly classified among

Electrical Electrical

power for operation of IT devices and power to derive the cooling system

In an organization data center is one of the Largest

Consumer of Energy and it consumes 10 to 14 times

more electricity than normal office building.

Green Data Center Construction

Two Matrics are used to analyse the greenness of existing data center

Power Usage Effectiveness

A PUE B

A - Total Power Consumed in data Center Building B - Power Consumed by IT equipment

DATA Center Efficiency

DCIE = 1/PUE

Data center Green report is prepared using tool such as RACKWISE.

Advantages of Green IT data Center

Reduction in Energy Consumption

To prepare the organization for compliance with

future Regulations

To take advantages of pricing incentives, tax breaks and rebates

Development in IT companies towards Green IT data Center

Dynamic Smart Cooling Technology Developed by IBM

Distribute temperature sensors over data center servers. Power consumption of data center is reduced from 117 Kw to 72 Kw.

Started Big Green Innovation

To reduce Carbon emissions and energy efficient data center

Accenture Technology lab developed the data center

estimator for planning and strategic anlysis to decide how to green their data center.

Hara developed a software application called hara environmental and energy management

Provide ways to cut greenhouse and waste

Emerson opens a solar energy based data Center

31 percent energy efficient as compared to traditional data center.

Use more than 550 solar Panels,generate more Than 100 kW of energy,80 percent construction waste is reused.

Energy used by googles data center is about half of

energy used by typical data center.

HP Labs done a case study in which an anaerobic digestor associated with diary having 10,000 cows able to provide power for a 1 MW data center.

Dell started plans like Green Grid Plan, Climate savers

Plan and 80plus plan.

Green Grid Plan to improve data Center Efficiency. Climate Savers Plan concentrated on power consumption characterstics

and power management features of individual IT components.

80plus plan helps to improve the computer power supplies efficiency

B.T. signed one of the largest renewable energy deal by

which it will save the carbon that is equivalent to amount

of carbon generated by 300,000 households in U.K.

B.T. has also taken steps towards Virtualisation and reduced its 1500 server data centers to 100 server.

IBM works with Syracuse University and New York state

to use smarter technologies in the new data center and it

is expecting that these data center uses 50 percent less energy as compare to typical data center which will make it one of the greenest computer center in operation

CONCLUSION
Green Data Center are more energy efficient as

compared to typical data center and Recent IT

trends is to use natural resources efficiently to cope up their energy demand which produces minimum carbon emission.

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