HP, one of the global leaders in providing efficient and state-of-the-art digital instruments to make your work easy and smooth, announces to launch a modular data center “Performance Optimized Data Center (Pod)” with a claimed power usage efficiency of 1.05. A PUE of 1 shows perfect efficiency. The industry average for data center efficiency is around 2. However some competitors like Microsoft and Google have achieved an efficiency level of 1.14, so it is a big achievement for HP to obtain such a low efficiency level.
This newly developed data center boasts faster deployment with nearly perfect efficiency and 95 percent less energy consumption. It packs 10 times IT capacity in its compact and modular design. HP’s EcoPODs contain 10,000 modules capable of holding 4,400 servers. However, with the usage requirement the energy consumption of data center varies. Most of the energy is consumed in cooling the servers. So, the more are the number of servers, the more is energy consumption. One official from HP says, “it is using hot-cold aisle cooling technology and that the modules are capable of using outside-air cooling to reduce energy consumption as much as possible.” So, if there is enough cold air available outside, the energy consumption will reduce.
GreenBiz claims it to be available for $8 million but the advantages make it worthy of its cost. As IT is the core to all operations, so building efficiency is the key to smooth and productive operations in an organization. Keeping in view all the benefits it provides to organization, this is relatively affordable investment.
Via: Treehugger
