Venema Advies Nigeria Limited West Africa Data Center Limited. Datacenter Sustainability

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1 Venema Advies Nigeria Limited West Africa Data Center Limited Datacenter Sustainability

2 Lord of War What if I have AIDS? Don't you worry? You worry too much! Why do you worry about something that can kill you in ten years. We know so many things that can kill you today.

3 Datacenters and Sustainability Two types of sustainability - Operational Sustainability - Environmental Sustainability

4 Operational Sustainability

5 5 key elements Operational Sustainability Site Selection Building Characteristics Fitness for Use Investment Effectiveness Management and Operations

6 Site Selection Regional natural disaster risks (seismic, lightning, snow/ice, tornado, flooding, etc.). Regional and site-specific natural and man-made disaster risks (adjacent land use, transportation corridors, aircraft flight paths, sink holes, abandoned mines, etc.). Dedicated vs. shared-use buildings and their inherent exposures (building a data center in a multistory office building, etc.). Utility (electric, water, and fiber) availability, diversity, and distribution path routing. Economics (utility consumption rates and demand charges, ability to exploit free cooling, etc.) and financial incentives (property and sales tax, rebates, reduced permit fees, low interest bonding, etc.). Parcel size vs. building footprint (providing for future growth, protection from unknown future neighbors). Site physical security (perimeter definition, setback from uncontrolled areas, controlled access for people, vehicle, and packages).

7 Datacenter running on petrol in Lagos?

8 Building Characteristics Consistency of the data center s location with the long-term business mission. Local/International codes, standards, and requirements and how they impact costs and site use. Understanding natural and man-made disaster risks and mitigating them by designing a building that is fully functional during and after the disaster. Power, cooling, and associated subsystem capacities are coordinated for common exhaust points. (Examples include chillers coordinated with UPS capacity, and thermal storage discharge capacity coordinated with UPS battery discharge duration; this enables a coordinated capital upgrade plan to be developed.) Support spaces (storage, shop, staging, etc.) to keep unnecessary activity and materials out of the computer room. Comprehensive commissioning of the completed construction; verification that the design intent was delivered. Certification! Use of incremental investment to maximize future available capacity (e.g., instead of using a 3,000-amp bus to match the immediate requirement, use a 4,000-amp bus to gain more ultimate capacity for a fractional increase in cost).

9 Modular Built Datacenter with Support Space

10 Fitness for Use Flexibility of the site and building design: the ability to accommodate reasonable but unknown future demands such as increased power and cooling capacity or functionality, enhanced security equipment, or additional security layers (plugand-play capacity expansions, pads for future equipment, ability to implement continuous cooling in the future, etc.). Robustness and redundancy of the design (use of a 90% redline rating, redundancy level [N, N+1, N+2], suitability of the specified equipment, ability to maintain a level of redundancy or Fault Tolerance during maintenance, technology choices, etc.). Consistency of the design philosophy across all 16 site subsystems (e.g., not having a robust electrical system supported by a bare bones mechanical system). Ease of maintenance and capacity expansion. Adaptive use of proven technology; avoiding unproven emerging edge technology for a mission critical site.

11 WADC Modular Datacenter

12 Investment Effectiveness The ability to meet the business mission initially and to meet an evolving business mission over time without obsoleting previous investment or disrupting computer operations to make changes. Ease of responding to the changing business requirements: Tactical vs. Strategic solutions and the life of the site. Actual realized IT yield or the ability of the site to support the maximum number of servers and other IT devices. Energy efficiency and effectiveness (energy efficiency ratios); considering how operating set points and practices impact operating expense. Some investment effectiveness factors can only be influenced during site selection; see Site Selection for those items. In the event of future resale, how valuable would a high-end buyer consider this data center?

13 Spreading Investment YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4

14 Management and Operations The existence and success of the Integrated Critical Environments (ICE) Team and the interdepartmental processes and interactions. (The Institute recommends that an ICE team include strategic and tactical members from both IT and Facilities who work together in an interactive and collaborative way to manage critical sites.) Departmental effectiveness and the competency to perform their respective tasks. Use of meaningful key performance metrics and dashboards. Staffing levels, training programs, tools, and other operating expense items.

15 Environmental Sustainability

16 Difficulties

17 PUE = Power Usage Effectiveness PUE by inference is a measure of sustainability since reduced power consumption would result in lower carbon emissions. However, PUE does not take into account the sources of the power whether power is derived from wind, hydro, or coal makes a difference in sustainability.

18 CUE = Carbon Usage Effectiveness Realistic measure of environmental impact Reduce usage of diesel Stimulate alternative energy Stimulate greener IT environment

19 Petrol versus Natural Gas PETROL 3,14 kg CO2/liter NATURAL GAS 1,86 kg CO2/m3 DIESEL GENERATOR 1MW uses 270 liter per hour GAS GENERATOR 1MW uses 362m3 per hour Result?

20 CO2 Exhaust PETROL 847kg CO2 per hour NATURAL GAS 674kg CO2 per hour Natural Gas 21% less CO2

21 Trigeneration on gas

22 Trigeneration on gas Trigeneration combined with reversed heat for cooling can reduce cooling requirements with 30%. Cooling is almost the same as the used power capacity of IT equipment. 1MW of capacity is equivelant to 500kW of IT equipment in traditional datacenters Combined Heat Processing with Reversed Heat for Chillers reduces this to 700kW per 500kW of IT equipment.

23 Virtualization

24 FM200 fire supression Global Warming Alarm! Dont use FM200!

25 BREEAM / LEED Certification BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is an environmental standard that rates the sustainability of buildings in the UK. The BREEAM environmental assessment aims to minimize environmental impact by ensuring sustainability best practices are in place while also lowering organisations' costs through energy efficiency.

26 Future A sustainable future for Nigeria depends on your choices!