http://cleantechnica.com/2011/01/22/new-computer-gate-can-make-server-farms-more-energy-efficient/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2011/01/22/new-computer-gate-can-make-server-farms-more-energy-efficient/#comment-79254 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:21:07 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=21837#comment-79254 Tim, thanks for adding the new information.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/01/22/new-computer-gate-can-make-server-farms-more-energy-efficient/#comment-78863 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:38:41 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=21837#comment-78863 I manage servers in 3 large data centers so I feel the need to chime in here. There’s two giant leaps in energy efficiency that are greatly reducing power demands. The first is the move from full sized servers to blades. I can currently consolidate 6 350W servers from 4 or 5 years ago onto a single blade server at 120W (nearly 2Kw savings). The second gain is from the virtualization of servers, which further consolidates servers. Several hundred low use servers with different spikes in use can be consolidated on just a few dozen blade servers and a small storage system. There’s a huge gain in efficiency when you normalize the spikes in load on servers. Combine both of these and you’re looking at an enormous gain in efficiency. It’s all coming, but things tend to take a while.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/01/22/new-computer-gate-can-make-server-farms-more-energy-efficient/#comment-78445 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:53:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=21837#comment-78445 From this article it is also clear that it is important where server farms are located just as it is for an energy efficient building considering all the goods and services and possibly employees that have to get to and from the building.

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