Is an energy wasting data center draining your bottom line?
Source: Eaton
New technology options and power distribution strategies can dramatically reduce the cost and carbon footprint of your data center.
An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations struggling to sustain (or restore) profitability. Many of them reacted to the downturn by restructuring, trimming back R&D and marketing, and laying off employees. All of these moves leave a company in a vulnerable position when the market rebounds, which it inevitably will.
Meanwhile, huge potential savings are sitting, untapped, right in the company's data center.
Data center energy costs as a percent of total revenue are at an alltime high. In fact, energy costs are emerging as the second highest operating cost in the IT organization, behind labor. A typical onemegawatt data center consumes 16 million kilowatthours of electricity a year—roughly equivalent to the energy consumed by 1400 average U.S. households.
The IT and electrical industries have responded with new energysaving technologies and approaches that could have a notable, positive impact on a company's profitability.
This white paper looks at two key ways that data center managers can improve endtoend energy efficiency: by changing the voltage of power distribution and by taking advantage of new, highefficiency, multimode uninterruptible power systems (UPSs).
This analysis shows that 400V AC power distribution offers a high degree of energy efficiency for modern data centers, significantly reducing capital and operational expenditures and total cost of ownership, compared to 600V AC and traditional 480V AC power systems. Recent developments in UPS technology—including the introduction of transformerless UPSs with new energy management features— further enhance a 400V AC power distribution system to maximize energy efficiency.
An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations struggling to sustain (or restore) profitability. Many of them reacted to the downturn by restructuring, trimming back R&D and marketing, and laying off employees. All of these moves leave a company in a vulnerable position when the market rebounds, which it inevitably will.
Meanwhile, huge potential savings are sitting, untapped, right in the company's data center.
Data center energy costs as a percent of total revenue are at an alltime high. In fact, energy costs are emerging as the second highest operating cost in the IT organization, behind labor. A typical onemegawatt data center consumes 16 million kilowatthours of electricity a year—roughly equivalent to the energy consumed by 1400 average U.S. households.
The IT and electrical industries have responded with new energysaving technologies and approaches that could have a notable, positive impact on a company's profitability.
This white paper looks at two key ways that data center managers can improve endtoend energy efficiency: by changing the voltage of power distribution and by taking advantage of new, highefficiency, multimode uninterruptible power systems (UPSs).
This analysis shows that 400V AC power distribution offers a high degree of energy efficiency for modern data centers, significantly reducing capital and operational expenditures and total cost of ownership, compared to 600V AC and traditional 480V AC power systems. Recent developments in UPS technology—including the introduction of transformerless UPSs with new energy management features— further enhance a 400V AC power distribution system to maximize energy efficiency.
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| Date: | Nov 2009 |
