Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption By Creating Savings That Cascade Across Systems

By Emerson Network Power

The double impact of rising data center energy consumption and rising energy costs has elevated the importance of data center efficiency as a strategy to reduce costs, manage capacity, and promote environmental responsibility.

Data center energy consumption has been driven by the demand within almost every organization for greater computing capacity and increased IT centralization. While this was occurring, global electricity prices increased 56 percent between 2002 and 2006.

The financial implications are significant; estimates of annual power costs for U.S. data centers now range as high as $3.3B.