The sustainable data center: Going green without compromise

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1 The sustainable data center: Going green without compromise John Post Managing director Green IT Amsterdam region Board TKI SWITCH2SmartGrids 1 Agenda Power and pollution, the bad and the ugly Consortium Green IT Amsterdam region Data centers, ICT, energy and CO2 Solutions: Self-sufficient, participation, smart grids Smart grid considerations The eye of the hurricane? euroforum 28 juni

2 Three hard truths 1. Global energy demand is growing, the supply is not. 2. Burning fossil fuels is bad for the environment 3. Energy and ICT are closely interlinked Your iphone is powered by coals 2012: economy still inherited the economic momentum of 19th century England; world s 20 largest companies: ¾ of them are either producing fossil fuels, trading them or converting them into transport or energy. Renewable energy in NL Source: Fortune magazine euroforum 28 juni

3 Amsterdam data centers Energy useage datacenters: 350 miljoen kwh CO2 emissions: 200 kton CO2 10 % of electricity useage of all companies And fast growing Source: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening en Dienst Milieu en Bouwtoezicht Ambition Amsterdam Source: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Milieu en Bouwtoezicht euroforum 28 juni

4 Strategy Amsterdam for data centers 1. Stimulation Climate fund Amsterdam 60 M. Sustainability & innovation funds Harbour Foundation Green IT Amsterdam region 2. Clear procedure: Communication and information to the branch. Transparancy, BREEAM, Stichting Milieukeur. Secure achievement level. Decrease frequency of controls. Podium for front runners. 3. Maintain: Discuss and seduce Committments to investigations and measurements Administrative enforcement Source: Gemeente Amsterdam, DRO & DMB Green IT Amsterdam region: compelling reasons ICT infrastructure and applications are backbone of economy Growth of ICT energy use not sustainable Sustainability is essential for regional competitiveness Energy transition driven by ICT Competitive regions of the future are Green IT regions euroforum 28 juni

5 Consortium Green IT Amsterdam region Public-private network organisation (founded June 2010). Contribute to reducing 40% CO2 in 2025 in Amsterdam 1 Ambitions realized by: Greening of IT Realising energy savings within the ICT sector Greening by IT Innovative use of ICT for the reduction of CO2 emissions in other sectors Green IT Economy Creating new business opportunities with Green IT 3 2 The data center reality 90% + of the electricity pulled of the grid is wasted. Digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants. These physical realities are far from the mythology of the internet and the cloud. Google s data centers consume nearly 300 million watts, Facebook s 60 million watts. Of all things the Internet was expected to become the proliferation of backup diesel generators was not one of them. Source: NYT sept euroforum 28 juni

6 Forbes october It keeps growing and growing Growth of Internet as percentage of GDP Source: Harvard Business Review october 2012 euroforum 28 juni

7 Big Data 9000 By 2015 the number of networked devices will be double the entire global population. All sensor data has uncertainty. Global Data Volume in Exabytes Aggregate Uncertainty % The total number of social media accounts exceeds the entire global population. This data is highly uncertain in both its expression and content. Data quality solutions exist for enterprise data like customer, product, and address data, but this is only a fraction of the total enterprise data. 0 Multiple sources: IDC,Cisco By 2015, 80% of all available data will be uncertain Data centers and CO2 CO2 emissions Dutch data centers (Kton CO2/year) euroforum 28 juni

8 Data centers, locations Data center market is a growing market EU Top-5 cities total customer space and percentage new space 2011 t/m 3rd quarter. - CB Ellis. euroforum 28 juni

9 Solutions The NYT DC Self-sufficient Incl. renewable energy Participation Smart grid Typical energy usage in data center Self-sufficient Small data center, serverroom, total 6,5 MWh/m2/yr, 709 /m2/yr, Energiegebruik ICT ICT Verliezen UPS losses in de UPS Energiegebruik Compressors cool compressoren units koelmachine Energiegebruik Pumps for cool pompen units regelingen tbv koeling Energiegebruik Fans airco units ventilatoren luchtbehandelingskasten Source: GreenIT Amsterdam regio euroforum 28 juni

10 Area s of interest for green data centers Self-sufficient cooling servers Hot and cold alleys lighting property operations and logistics UPS sustainable energy information energy management people labels Green Deal Data centers Self-sufficient Agreement between the Dutch Government, the City of Amsterdam and Green IT Amsterdam Region Creation of a data center improvement package Coordinate with: ICT~Office: LTA NL Agency (AgentschapNL): working group Datacenter Cooling City of Amsterdam: EPP and PUE regulations Activities: Clustering of best practices (including feasibility aspects, planning, costs, etc) Offering pilots Foundation for improving de-facto standard of data center energy efficiency in the Netherlands Source: GreenIT Amsterdam region euroforum 28 juni

11 Renewable energy - it can be done, the Samso case. Self-sufficient Self-sufficient Renewable energy and data centers euroforum 28 juni

12 Apple DC on renewable energy Self-sufficient Apple is building what will be the largest private solar arrays and the largest non-utility fuel cell installation operating anywhere in the US. The renewable power will feed into the company s $1bn data centre in Maiden, North Carolina, supplying 60% of the 20 megawatts of power the data centre needs when running at full capacity. Apple says it will be the most environmentally sound data centre ever built. In and around Maiden the company is building two solar array installations using high-efficiency solar cells and an advanced solar tracking system. A 100-acre, 20-megawatt installation on the same site as our data centre will produce 42m kwh of energy annually. A 100-acre site located a few kilometres away will produce another 42m kwh. Greenhouses and data centers Participation Data centers are large users of electricity and produce heat as a waste product. Greenhouses are large users of heat and produce electricity as a by-product. euroforum 28 juni

13 Uitmelken van calorien Participation arbeid C zuigermotor gasturbine stirlingmotor warmte verwarming Smart grids illustrated Smart grids TRADITIONAL GRID SMART GRID euroforum 28 juni

14 Smart grids Smart grids illustrated Smart grids Smart grids and localisation. Boer zoekt buur, zie Wij krijgen kippen, zie euroforum 28 juni

15 Smart grids and data centers Smart grids data centers should becoming part of the heating and energy infrastructure, since what we do from a simple perspective is turn electricity into heat! Smart grids and data centers Smart grids Source: de kas als energiebron, stichting innovatie glastuinbouw euroforum 28 juni

16 De trendbreuk: Smart grids De trendbreuk in denken voor een duurzame energievoorziening zit in de omkering van het warmte- of koude leveringsproces aan tuinders: de voor verwarming benodigde energie (enthalpie) niet genereren door hoogwaardige warmte te degraderen, maar door laagwaardige warmte op te waarderen met elektrische waterpompen, in combinatie met korte- en lange termijn opslag. Source: de kas als energiebron, stichting innovatie glastuinbouw Sterling motor als aandrijver WKK? euroforum 28 juni

17 Power2Gas Power-to-Gas" - store and transport large quantities of energy. Power-to-Gas is the process involving the use of excess electrical power to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water. The hydrogen gas is then co-mingled with natural gas in the existing natural gas infrastructure, namely the gas pipeline network and its associated underground storage facilities. Energy and ICT (and $$) Energy to bits or bits to energy? distance Data center compute storage distance euroforum 28 juni

18 Data centers decentralizing of energy or IT? Source: Source: ozzo; ozzo; Een besluitmodel DC purpose And SLA s Place Concentrate or decentralize housing hosting Back-up telecom Main buss TX Required tier level Methods & Techniques Cooling, WKO CSR MJA euroforum 28 juni

19 Data centers as the green utilities. For the world For the North Wing For your business For you Thank you John Post Managing Director Consortium Green IT Amsterdam regio ICT authority for Top Sector Energie Chairman Platform Open Data Nederland euroforum 28 juni