Is Global Economy’s Computing Power About To Peak? New Survey Warns on Power Shortages
Posted: December 22, 2008
In just two years time, businesses may not be able to add to their computing power primarily because data center operators won’t have enough electricity to expand their operations.
That’s the unsettling conclusion of a new survey of data center professionals by Emerson Network Power, a unit of Emerson Electric Co. The survey’s results were first reported by the web site InfoWorld.
Equally unsettling, while nearly two thirds said they would have serious capacity issues by 2011, only one in four reportedly has plans to reduce electricity usage.
The problem appears unlikely to be solved by 2011. The report found that data center operators maintain they don’t have the budget or the time to measure and improve their centers’ energy efficiency.
Executives from Cassatt Corp., a company that specializes in improving the energy efficiency of data centers, told EnergyTechStocks.com earlier this year that they believe data centers waste as much as 90% of the electricity they use through a hodgepodge of operating procedures that result in a lot of a data center’s equipment (blade servers, switches, etc.) unnecessarily being in use all the time.
The survey found that, in addition to a lack of time and budget resources, data center operators also aren’t trying to improve their energy efficiency because they don’t think they can properly benchmark results against similar facilities.
For more, please see:
What a Waste! Expert Says Data Centers Waste Up to 90% of the Electricity They Use (Part 1 of 2)
Data Centers Waste 90% of Their Power Because Nobody Knows How They Are Hooked Up (Part 2 of 2)