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Data center energy consumption in Latin America has increased considerably during last years. According to Datacenter dynamics, energy requirements during 2016 were expected to be around 3.85 GW. In Chile, the data center industry grew 14% between 2009 and 2010, whereas energy consumption increased 21.4% between 2012 and 2013. For this reason, many data centers in the country have started to evaluate...
As the information technology market has commoditized computing, several significant changes have been underway. The continued growth of the size and number of data centers and the drive to reduce the operating costs of these data centers has resulted in greater use of outside air cooling. Design of IT equipment itself has changed for lower cost and for safer end of life disposal. All of these changes...
Inlet Fogging has been utilized in gas turbine power augmentation, whereby water in the form of billions of droplets, created by using specially designed fogging nozzles is sprayed into the ambient air lowering its temperature (adiabatic cooling) with the corresponding increase in the turbine power output. This work via numerical simulation, attempts to study the application of fogging in a square...
A data center is a facility used to keep computer related equipments. It is estimated that heat production rate of the data center is doubled in every two years and hence the inevitability of the cooling system gets increased. In due course power consumption of a data center is augmented and more cost is spent on the power usage of the cooling system rather than the equipment purchase. As a result...
The telecommunications industry is increasingly conscious of energy consumption and the environmental footprint of its data centers. At present, more than half of energy consumption of data centers is for the power and cooling infrastructure. One energy-efficient approach, free air cooling, uses ambient air, rather than air conditioning, to cool the equipment. Free air cooling is being adopted in...
The crossroads of sustainable development and data centers are examined due to the growing demand for electricity, and the increasing size of the carbon footprint of data centers worldwide. Free cooling involves using the natural climate to cool the data center as opposed to the more traditional method of using conventional systems such as air-conditioning. In our research, we consider retrofitting...
Full-scale model of a representative data center was developed, with the arrangement of bringing outside air under suitable conditions. Four different world cities were considered to evaluate the energy savings over the entire year. Results show a significant saving in chiller energy (up to 70%), and even the possibility of switching off chillers for certain months of the year. The details of relative...
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