Green Data Centres in Universities and Colleges event

Computing and HPC clusters in data centres consume large amounts of electricity directly, and often use as much again in cooling, power supply equipment and other ‘overhead’ activities. This is increasingly expensive, and creates growing emissions of CO2. 

The strategic review of ICT in further and higher education conducted by the SusteIT project (see www.susteit.org.uk) showed that energy consumption, costs and emissions can be reduced through more efficient servers; virtualisation; holistic design of cooling and power supply; better air management; ‘free cooling’ and alternative cooling media to air. This workshop features UK examples from Imperial (CO2 cooling), plus a presentation from an American expert involved in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s green data centre programme. Attendees should:

Gain a better understanding of good practice, and how it can be achieved

Be updated on new developments, such as the EU Code of Conduct

Build networks between practitioners, both within IT, and between IT and Estates (whose collaboration is essential to achieve effective cooling solutions)

Details of the event which is being held on the 3rd March are here.

Published by  on 20 February 2009