These are the strategies to save energy costs. The biggest savings are still in cooling, but you need to start from IT loads first. The reason for this is the Cascade Effect™. The more saving you have on the IT side, the less losses you will have on all layers making the way through your data centre out to the main power supply or transformers. This is why the order is as shown in the table below. You can also see the potential savings total, as well as a break down, both in regards to the total energy consumption of the data centre.
There are three main parts:
IT Hardware Choices
Using the Best Practices
Investing in efficient POWER & COOLING
Using all of these strategies, you can save up to 50% of the total energy consumption of your data centre. Obviously this will also depends on local environments and technologies.
