Green Technologies: Smart and Efficient Management- 2012, SLIET Longowal

Green It Data Centre

Surinder Chauhan, Sunil Singla, Shakti Singh, Vikram
Abstract Increased Global Warming has adverse effect on environment so in order to reduce global warming its necessary to shift towards greener technology. Green technology means to develop new methods to use natural environment and resources which reduces negative impact of human activites. However IT companies also contributing in global warming which mostly people dont realize, IT data center is one of the main component of IT companies whose contribution is maximum in environmental problem. In this paper author studied the IT data center and various progress done by different IT companies towards greening their data center Keywords Data Center, Green Data Center, IBM, BT, HP

internet traffic each server consist of number of cores and processors and its number depends upon server processing capacity Figure 1 [3] show the basic data center building blocks. Switch gear data centers takes electricity from the utility grid and/or onsite generation. And through Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) data centers switchgear, consists of transformers and static switches with associated panels distribute power to both the cooling infrastructure and the IT infrastructure. Chillers, cooling towers, computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units and primary/secondary pumps comes under cooling infrastructure while servers, network devices and

INTRODUCTION Now These days Government emphasis on Environmental Protection increased due to which many Organization changes their business practice so that they able to become more environmental responsible. Today use of Information Technology increases day by day and its make works quicker and easier but it also contributes in environmental problem. Every stage of Computer that is from its production to up to its disposal creates environmental problems. At 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. Each PC in use generates about a ton of carbon dioxide every year. The total energy consumed by servers, computers, monitors, data communication equipment, and cooling system for data centers is increasing day by day. This increased energy consumption increases the greenhouse gas emission. Computer components contain toxic materials and it polluting. The earth and contaminating water at time of disposal [2]. Thus its necessary to raise awareness about IT environmental problems and motivate them towards to environmentally sound IT that means adopting new practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers and servers in efficiently and effectively with minimum or no impact on the environment. Green IT have a number of focus areas and activities, including design for environmental sustainability, energyefficient computing , power management, data center design , layout and location server virtualization , use of renewable energy sources and eco-labelling of IT products[4]. This paper studied the Green data Center and progress of IT companies towards green data center. IT DATA CENTER Data center consists of a number of servers which handles
Surinder Chauhan is with EIED, Thapar University Patiala, India. Sunil Singla is with EIED, Thapar University Patiala, India.([email protected]) Shakti Singh is with EIED, Thapar University Patiala, India. Vikram is with EIED, Thapar University Patiala, India.

storage devices housed in standard racks comes under IT infrastructure. Function of the UPS is maintaining power quality during normal operation and providing energy storage for operating the IT infrastructure during short power outages. Data center requires chilled water that is provided by Chiller for cooling of servers and other IT equipment. Broadly, energy demands for a data center can be divided among electrical power for operation of IT devices and electrical power/energy to drive the cooling systems [3]. Data center are one of the largest consumer of energy within an organization. Data center consumes on average 10 to 15 times more electricity than an office building per square foot of floor space. Some data centers can consumes up to 100 times more electricity per square foot than normal office building. In order to reduce energy consumption , increasing the existing data center life, preparing the organization for compliance with future regulations and certifications, to take advantage of pricing incentives, tax breaks and rebates

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Green Technologies: Smart and Efficient Management- 2012, SLIET Longowal offered by utilities, insurance companies and governments and to reduce carbon footprints green data centers prove to be more beneficial as compared to traditional data center[9]. GREEN DATA CENTER CONSTRUCTION Green data center is one which uses resources more efficiently and has less environmental impact. Construction of green data center is not an easy task. First step for conversion of data center to green data center is to estimate the energy efficiency of existing data center. Two most popular metrics that used to analyse the greenness of existing data center are Power usage Effectiveness and data center efficiency. Equations used for calculating this two are as follows has developed a software application called hara environmental and energy management which provides organization a way of monitoring their water and fuel consumption and to lesser their environmental impact by planning ways to cut greenhouse and waste [6]. Emerson opens a data center which used solar energy and its 31 percent energy efficient as compared to traditional data center. These data center uses a 7800 square foot rooftop solar array and use more than 550 solar panels which can generate more than 100 kilowatts of energy. Approx 80 percent construction waste is reused and it saves more than 2.5 miles copper piping [12].Recently HP Labs has done the math to show that that Farms waste can be used for meeting power requirements of data center. it has done hypothetical case study in which an anaerobic digester (process by which organic materials in an enclosed vessels are broken down by micro-organisms, in the absence of oxygen) associated with diary having 10,000 cows is able to provide power for a 1 MW data center and waste heat from data center is reused to produce power for data center from farms waste [3]. Googles data center is one of the most energy efficient data center in world. Energy used by googles data center is about half of energy used by typical data center.It consumes less than 0.01% of global electricity [8]. Dell is also moving towards go green and its started plans like Green grid plan which helps to improve data center efficiency, Climate Savers Plan concentrated on power consumption characteristics and power management features of individual IT components and 80plus plan that helps to improve the computer power supplies efficiency [1]. British Telecom signed one of the largest renewable energy deal by which it will be able to save the carbon that is equivalent to amount of carbon generated by 300,000 households in the U.K. B.T. has also taken steps towards Virtualisation (focussing usage on single server up to its full potential while others are not used) and reduced its 1500 server data centers to 100 server and save 600,000 euro per year [11] CONCLUSION Green Data Center are more energy efficient as compared to typical data center and Recent IT trends is to use natural resources to cope up their energy demand which produces minimum carbon emission REFERENCES
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PUE

A B
Power Usage Effectiveness

Where PUE =

A = Total Power Consumed in data center Building B = Power Consumed by IT equipment

1 PUE Where DCIE = Data Center Efficiency DCIE
After Calculating DCIE and PUE of an existing Data center a green report is prepared which provides measures to organization that helpful in conversion of existing data center to green data center [1]. DEVELOPMENT IN IT COMPANIES TOWARDS GREEN DATA CENTER IT companies like HP Accenture, IBM, and Dell have taken initiatives for constructing green data centers. Dynamic smart Cooling technology developed by HP in 2006[10] uses a number of temperature sensors which distributed over data center servers. These temperature sensor sense the temperature of servers and when its crosses safe range its automatically starts the air condition and when its under range it closes the air condition and its noted that by this experiment power consumption of data center is reduced from 117 kw to 72 kw. Accenture technology lab has developed the data center estimator which helps organizations undertake the detailed planning and strategic analysis necessary to decide how to green their data centers [9]. IBM one of largest IT companies launched a project known as Big Green Innovation aiming to design a reduce carbon emissions and energy efficient data center [1]. Its also developed a liquid-cooled supercomputer which uses waste heat of data center.Through its smarter planet initiative, 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 [5]. Clear Edge Power is planning to use fuel cell for providing power to data center.The data center fuel cell will provide power at about half the cost of grid energy and carbon emission is reduced by 35 to 40 percent [7]. Hara software company of 25 person

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Suite-Data Center estimator, accenture tech -nology labs. [10] Xiao Xang, Key Technologies for Green Data Center, Information Processing (ISIP), 2010 Pages 477-480. [11] A Realist guide to green data center BT glo -bal services. http:// globalservices.bt.com/ [12] http:// www.emerson.com/en-US/newsroom/ New-releases/emerson-corporate-news/Pages/ Emerson-Global-Data-Center-ST-Louis.aspx

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