The Matcha Initiative
Join usFor servers and datacentres, as energy consumption is their main carbon footprint, it is important to continuously work on decreasing their energy consumption.
Before any best practices, let us focus briefly on datacentres to understand what is at stake.
First, it is good to keep in mind that datacentres/servers are not bad guys here! Their efficiency has been improved ridiculously over the last decades. According to GreenIT.fr, datacentres' activities increased by 550% over the last decade, for a slight 6% increase of electricity consumption.
Datacentres are listed into Tiers - depending on the average unavailability of service (per year). The more the service is ensured, the higher Tier it is (and the energy consumption too!).
Therefore, before anything, it is important to estimate the importance of a service to deploy it on a server/datacentre. Non critical services are not necessary on a Tier 4 datacentre for example.
Last - but not least: data flows are important to understand to lower their impact. Isit Academy estimates that:
- 15% of data received/sent by datacentres are processed from end-users
- 15% of data received/sent by datacentres are processed from external datacentres
- Remaining 70% (!) data are internal flows (save, security, storage...).
This gives perspective to know where improvements should be made in priority. Especially, security processes are considered being the most energy consuming services in a datacentre.
Finally, the electricity consumed by a datacentre also includes all interfaces, screens, people.... Some improvements have to be enforced here also, not only in the datacentre processes themselves.
Some important Best Practices to implement:
14%
is the projected percentage of ICT GHG emissions by 2040 on the worldwide 2016-level based GHGE.
(sciencedirect)
7450 kWh per year
is the estimated electricity consumption of a standard server. Based on the US Energy Information administration, this represents a total cost of 730 USD per year.
(ZDNet)
For servers and datacentres:
- International Energy Agency (IEA) report
On the big picture regarding ICT and datacentres energy consumption:
- nature.com paper
On how to build sustainable datacentres:
- datacenterdynamics.com papers
- datacenterdynamics.com white paper
More ideas to reduce energy consumption:
- age of awareness
More on datacentres in Singapore and ASEAN:
- white paper on the future of datacentres in the face of climate change
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