Best in Class Finalist, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Facilities
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This case study describes 5NINES' best-in-class data center facility (eLEAN) using a BIO-MASS powerstation. A free heat take-off agreement allows eLEAN to harvest some of the 74mW of exhaust heat that the station currently wastes as part of its generation and use it to drive absorption chillers, in combination with local gas engines to create a complete combined cooling, heating, and power infrastructure. The goal was to reduce energy expenses in excess of 25 percent and reduce carbon emissions by at least 40 percent.
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Best in Class Winner, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: IT
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AOL launched a data center optimization program to increase IT utilization across AOL’s four data centers in the US with the intended purpose of increasing efficiency, reducing operating costs, allowing for future server growth, and deferring costs of expanding to another data center.
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Best in Class Winner, Energy Efficient Products: IT
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APC designed row-based cooling solutions to solve the problem of proper heat removal and cold air supply, but it also brought an inherent energy-efficiency advantage. The reduction in the airflow path length reduces the required fan power, thus increasing its efficiency.
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Best in Class Winner, Facility Design
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eNation's goal in this project was to design a data center based on social responsibility concepts and complete integration of green principles without compromising availability.
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Best in Class Finalist, Data Center Energy Efficiency: IT
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Don Atwood, Intel’s Regional Data Center Manager, discusses the bold proof-of-concept test Intel mounted on 900 servers and how its results could yield an annual savings in electricity costs of $2.8 million.
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Best in Class Winner, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Joint IT and Facilities
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In an effort to adopt a “green” data center, MassMutual's Corporate Facility Engineering and Data Center Services organizations partnered to aggressively monitor the overall infrastructure and mechanical growth demand on the MassMutual production data center.
The collaboration so effectively regained capacity that MassMutual was able to avoid major investments and expenses of building out a new data center.
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Best In Class Winner, Green IT: Beyond the Data Center
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University of Notre Dame scientists developed a Grid Heating (GH) paradigm. GH recognizes that, despite evolving low power architectures, demands for increased capability will drive up power consumption toward economic limits on par with capital equipment costs. In contrast to the design of a single facility for centralized compute infrastructure, GH capitalizes on grid and virtualization technologies to distribute compute infrastructure in-line with existing municipal and industrial thermal requirements.
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Best in Class Finalist, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Joint IT and Facilities
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As part of an evolutionary process toward improving efficiency, NetApp built an extremely efficient data center estimated to operate with a PUE of 1.24 on an annualized basis. This level of efficiency is accomplished predominantly with the extensive use of outside air economizers, or “free cooling.”
NetApp received a $1,427,477 rebate for the energy efficiency measures implemented in the engineering data center from the regional utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, under their Non-Residential New Construction rebate program. This was the largest amount they have ever awarded under this rebate program.
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Best in Class Finalist, Green IT: Beyond the Data Center
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company has formed and supported a growing coalition of utilities across the United States and Canada to share industry-leading energy efficiency program and service models directed towards data centers and IT infrastructure.
With over 35 members, the Coalition is expecting to drive increased availability of utility programs, including financial incentives and rebates, supporting customers who adopt energy efficiency technologies and practices.
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Best in Class Finalist, Energy Efficient Products: IT
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In this case study with the US Postal Service, Powersmiths demonstrated that higher efficiency transformers could significantly reduce power conversion losses incurred by stand-alone transformers and transformers integrated into data center power distribution units.
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Best in Class Winner, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Facilities
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Addressing risks posed by single point of failure in their Munich DC cooling system, UniCredit Group discovered the opportunity to adopt a green cooling solution.
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Best in Class Winner, Energy Efficient Products: Facilities
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In this podcast, Dave Driggers (CTO) and Dan Gatti (Senior VP, Worldwide Market Operations) describe how the combination of BladeRack @X Series servers and FOREST container solutions can improve data center efficiency by more than 100 percent.
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Best in Class Finalist, Energy Efficient Products: IT
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Verdiem CEO, Jeremy Jaech, discusses Surveyor, the product nominated as finalist in the Energy Efficient IT Products Category.
He reveals how Washington Mutual Bank used the product to produce savings of $3 million per year in energy costs.
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