Keysource Cuts Energy Use 45 Percent at U.K. Data Center

greenercomputing.com (Jun 10 2009) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. WEYBRIDGE, UK -- With a PUE of 1.2, the new data center designed by Keysource for Petroleum Geo-Services has cut its energy costs almost in half using already-existing technologies. The PUE, a metric developed the Green Grid, measures the amount of electricity entering a data center that is used for services other than computing. A PUE of 2 means that for every watt in the room that goes to powering servers or storage, another watt goes to cooling, lighting, or other non-computing needs. Surprisingly, the new facility opened by PGS, and designed by Keysource, doesn't make use of the cool air in this city 30 miles outside London to achieve its big gains in energy use. Instead, Keysource put in a closed-loop system that uses heat exchangers, rather than using outside air with air-filters to take out the contamination. According to Mark West, Keysource's managing director, cooling is ... (Read Full Article)

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