Green data centers

1. Green data centers
Dmitriy Bulgakov
HSE, faculty of Business Informatics, 2014

2. Content
• Introduction and general information
• Architecture of a data center
• Ways of reducing power consumption
• Example of green data center and conclusions

3. Introduction
• Around 1.79 Billion social network users1
• More then 400 Million cloud storage users2
• 40-45 Million working servers
• 0.5 Million data centers worldwide3
http://www.statista.com/statistics/278414/number-of-worldwide-social-network-users/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/15/report-cloud-storage-services-now-have-over-375m-users-could-reach-500m-by-year-end/
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/12/14/how-many-data-centers-emerson-says-500000/

4. Introduction
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/02/april-2014-web-server-survey.html

5. Introduction
http://www.eia.gov/countries/analysisbriefs/China/images/primary_energy_consumption.png

6. Introduction
World Primary Energy Consumption (Mtoe)
http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-Energy-Consumption-Statistics
Other Renewables
Oil
Hydroelectricity
Gas
Fuel Ethanol
Coal
Data centers take
10 percent of world's electricity
consumption2
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/it_electricity_use_worse_than_you_thought/

7. Architecture of a data center
http://youtube.com/watch?v=glelr3EsQwM

8. Ways of reducing power consumption
• Change architecture of servers
Custom web server made by Google
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-uncloaks-once-secret-server-10209580/

9. Ways of reducing power consumption
• Using renewable energy sources

10. Ways of reducing power consumption
• Modular data centers
AST Smart Shelter Container made by CSPM
http://www.cspm.com.my/product_modulardata.html

11. Ways of reducing power consumption
• Water cooling

12. Example of green data center
• Green Mountain data center
http://www.cspm.com.my/product_modulardata.html

13. Example of green data center
• Green Mountain data center
http://www.cspm.com.my/product_modulardata.html

14. Example of green data center
• Green Mountain data center
http://www.cspm.com.my/product_modulardata.html

15. Example of green data center
• Green Mountain data center
http://www.cspm.com.my/product_modulardata.html

16. Thanks for watching:)