Energy-saving ideas
Steven Bridge  |  by www.crn.com.au. All rights reserved. 21.05 | 9:13




- Consider water cooling. "Water is a much more efficient medium for cooling than air," according to Forrester's Mines. "Would you rather step in front of a fan or jump into the pool on a hot day?

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- Virtualise. "By creating a virtual machine environment, you spread workloads across your servers," Mines says. "Instead of running your servers at 15 percent to 20 percent capacity, you achieve 50 percent to 60 percent capacity.

Fifteen percent is the typical server load on Wall Street - they're buying too many servers."

- Outsource or collocate data centers. "Companies will increasingly look at the option to relieve power constraints," Mines says.



- Stop leaking power. "People are looking at switching data centers to DC power instead of AC power," says Degree Controls' Birch. "A lot of energy is lost in transitioning from AC to DC to AC to DC.

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- Stop leaking air. "Cold Lock makes a device that helps you seal up holes and air-leakage places in your data centers," Birch says. "In data centers with a raised floor, people will create a hole in the floor to let the cables come up to the server.

Sometimes they'll make a two-foot hole, and it will be less than a quarter filled with cables. That's a huge air sink." But all the workers want is money.

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