Case 2: Google Data Center Efficiency Best Practices
Summary: Google operates some of the largest data centers in the world to support its search engine,Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube and a host of other applications delivered to a global audience. Google’s Technical Program Manager describes how Google manages the energy consumption of its data centers using industry best practices.
Questions
- What is PUE, and why is it an important place to start when considering how to reduce data center power consumption? What value of PUE should data center managers strive for?
- Describe the five methods recommended by Google for reducing power consumption.
- How much of the world’s global greenhouse gases are the result of computing? List several factors that will tend to retard or accelerate data center power consumption both globally and in the United States.
- Where do you suspect that data center power consumption will be greatest: developing and emerging economies or already-developed economies? Why?
- Imagine that a company has developed an advanced technology that allows it to reduce its data center requirements by an unprecedented amount, and creates a competitive advantage for the company in the data center market. Why should it share that technology with other data center firms? If this firm does not share its techniques, the rest of the industry will continue to operate less efficient centers, and increase global emissions of greenhouse gases above what they would otherwise be.
- Should the government or an industry association regulate the carbon emissions of the data center industry as they do the airline industry or the automobile industry? Or is it sufficient to rely on the competitive market place to drive down energy consumption in data centers?
Case 2: Google Data Center Efficiency Best Practices
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