Feature "Data Center"
doteditorial April 2017
Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure, on powering and greening IT.
Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure, on powering and greening IT.
For both the environment and company OPEX, power consumption cannot increase at the same speed as computing power. Judith Ellis explores what data center operators and company IT professionals can do to create efficiencies.
Volatile renewable energy is increasingly important for national and internationally connected power grids, but, according to Judith Ellis, care is needed to provide stable power for critical infrastructure and sensitive IT processes.
As data centers become ever larger consumers of energy, they have the chance to play a key role in shaping the move towards using more renewable energy and the future energy market. Staffan Reveman of Reveman Energy Academy looks at the hurdles ahead and possible symbioses for data center energy consumption.
The high cost of energy in Germany is a result of the country’s transition from fossil fuels and atomic energy to renewables. This could be seen as a marker for a poor market environment – or the opposite, as Mathias Röckel explains.