There are many factors that drive data center cost savings and reduced environmental impact, including design, materials, waste recycling, and alternative energy technologies. Organizations can successfully build and implement green data center initiatives that maximize efficiency and return on investment.

1. DATA CENTER
GREEN
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2. How green is your data center? If you don't care now, you will soon.
Most data center managers haven't noticed the steady rise in
electricity costs, since they don't usually see those bills. But they do
see the symptoms of surging power demands.
High-density servers are creating hot spots in data centers that
have surpassed 30 kilowatts per rack for some high-end systems.
As a result, some data center managers are finding that they can't
get enough power distributed out to those racks on the floor. Still
others are finding that they can't get more power to the building:
they've maxed out the power utility's ability to deliver additional
capacity to that location.

3. CONSOLIDATE YOUR
SERVERS, AND
CONSOLIDATE SOME MORE
Existing data centers can achieve substantial
savings by making just a few basic changes, and
consolidating servers is a good place to start.
Nowadays system makes adjustments dynamically
as workloads change. In this way, workloads might
be consolidated in the evening during off-hours, and
then reallocated across more physical machines in
the morning, as activity increases.

4. CONDUCT A BASELINE
ENERGY AUDIT
Any green data center initiative should start with a
baseline energy audit. The baseline audit provides
both a real-time assessment of usage and efficiency
and a benchmark for future assessments to guide
long term planning.
Because data centers are comprised of a variety of
diverse and interconnected systems, it's critical to
drill down into individual systems to pinpoint where
inefficiencies reside within the infrastructure. From
there, the energy audit assesses the impact of these
inefficiencies on total usage and outlines a tangible
and trackable remediation plan.

5. DESIGN MODULAR
DATA CENTERS
Prefabricated data center solutions accelerate the
speed of business through delivering modular
packages for data center facility managers. These
pre-engineered solutions target specific
parameters, including deployment speed,
performance, reliability, and cost reduction.
Modular datacenters like those in remodeled
shipping containers provide organizations more
flexibility for satisfying their computation demand
while saving the resources and space required to
build an entirely new data center.

6. PRIORITIZE THE
REDUCTION OF DATA
CENTER POWER USAGE
To reduce data center power use, it's critically
important to lower the amount of energy required
to power the IT equipment. In fact, 60 percent of
payload power is consumed by servers.
To decrease this power drain, data center managers
should focus on consolidating and virtualizing
workloads, eliminating powered servers that are
dormant, and replacing old servers with newer
models.

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