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Data Centers are prevalent in both public and private sector buildings serving many growing sectors of the economy. Data center facilities have one thing in common - they are extremely energy intensive. The development of the World Wide Web, and the shift to smaller, multiple unit servers has created a unique challenge to electrical power infrastructure.
Advances in information and computer technologies have allowed greater and greater processing in smaller components. Energy efficiency improvement of the equipment involved, however, has not evolved proportionally to component size reduction. This situation has lead to increasing energy intensity levels within computer facilities.
To compound the problem of increasing intensity, there is considerable discrepancy between the electrical demand projected by developers and building owners and the actual electrical consumption.
As these facilities are planned, and then built, overstating the electrical load coupled with use of outdated cooling practices often leads to inefficient operation. Because the energy intensities are increasing there also has been a tendency to exaggerate the impact of these facilities on the electrical power grid within California and in selected regions.
Prior investigations suggest that there are significant opportunities for energy efficiency improvement within these facilities, such as individual systems that support data center operations, the interface of building systems and computer arrangements, and more efficient design within the computer boxes.
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(source: Berkeley Labs)