2008 Data Center Energy Forecast Report
This study from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and others explores case studies of real-world ways that companies can achieve up to 55 percent energy reductions in total data center energy use.
In partnership with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, the Department of Energy and others, this new report shows how adopting energy efficiency policies and hardware management practices can lead to significant cuts in power consumption for any data center.
The report offers 17 case studies of 11 different technology initiatives that companies have implemented in response to a call by the U.S. EPA last year for detailed information about best practices for reducing data center energy use.
Data centers account for an already large — and quickly growing — consumer of the domestic energy supply. The EPA report found that between 2000 and 2006 data centers’ energy use more than doubled, reaching a total of 1.5 percent of the country’s electricity, more than all the color televisions in the country in that year.
As a result, the EPA called for dedicated efforts to identify best practices in energy efficiency for data centers, and this report is intended to offer some insight into those best practices.
