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Facebook funds UT Arlington to discover energy efficiencies for computer centers
Explore Press Release & News Distribution (Nov 8 2011)
Facebook has made a multi-year commitment to work with a UT Arlington engineer for a National Science Foundation project related to keeping massive data centers more energy efficient.
The Environmental Protection Agency has reported that the energy used in 2006 by the data center industry was 1.5 percent of the total nationwide energy usage. Experts agree that this usage will top 2 percent soon. As such, savings related to data centers’ efficiency could be in the millions for companies with large data centers such as Facebook.
UT Arlington’s Dereje Agonafer is part of a cooperative research center whose focus will be finding more efficient and greener ways to run giant data centers. Agonafer is a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor.
The University of Texas at Arlington is joining Binghamton and Villanova universities in forming the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Energy-Efficient Electronic Systems. Binghamton will serve as ...
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