1. New Cooling Saves 45 Percent Of Energy At Data Centre

    Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 8 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

    1. New Cooling Saves 45 Percent Of Energy At Data Centre Oil explorers PGS get an efficient data centre. Is that so they burn less of the fuel they find? A new cooling system in a UK data centre has achieved a record efficiency score and 45 percent energy savings - using only well-established technology. The Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) centre in Weybridge, Surrey, has a PUE efficiency score of 1.2 as defined by the Green Grid. This means that for every Watt oil exploration company PGS gives its servers, only another 0.2W is needed for cooling, lighting and other overheads. It should save PGS 15.8kWh a year, and reduce the company's carbon footprint by 6,800 million tonnes of CO2. A PUE of 1.2 is a significant achievement given that most of today's data centres achieve only around 2.2, according to Mike West, managing director of Keysource, the company that built the centre. Although the ... (Read Full Article)

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