Energy efficiency of data centers - a system-oriented analysis of current development trends

2016 Electronics Goes Green 2016+ (EGG) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI:10.1109/EGG.2016.7829805

R. Hintemann, S. Beucker, J. Clausen, L. Stobbe, M. Proske, N. Nissen

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The advancing digitization of all areas of the economy and society is generating significantly increasing demand for processing power. More and more data centers of ever larger size are being built worldwide, and their electricity consumption is constantly on the rise. Forecasts project a significant increase in the global electricity consumption of data centers in the next five years. The presentation discusses the development of data centers' energy consumption and energy efficiency, using the example of Germany. A recent study by Borderstep and Fraunhofer IZM for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy shows that the electricity consumption of data centers in Germany grew by 15% to 12 billion kilowatt hours from 2010 to 2015. This was the case in spite of considerable efficiency gains in IT hardware and data center infrastructure. If the current trends in IT usage continue, German data centers' energy consumption will increase further and exceed 14 billion kWh in 2020. Reasons for this growth are in particular the increasing number of internet-enabled end-user devices and networked sensors. In addition, more and more processing is being shifted from end-user devices to data centers.

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数据中心的能源效率——面向系统的当前发展趋势分析

随着经济和社会各个领域的数字化不断推进，对处理能力的需求正在显著增加。在世界范围内，越来越多的数据中心规模越来越大，其用电量也在不断上升。据预测，未来五年全球数据中心的用电量将显著增加。本报告以德国为例，讨论了数据中心能耗和能源效率的发展。Borderstep和Fraunhofer IZM最近为联邦经济事务和能源部进行的一项研究表明，从2010年到2015年，德国数据中心的用电量增长了15%，达到120亿千瓦时。尽管在IT硬件和数据中心基础设施方面获得了相当大的效率提升，但情况仍然如此。如果目前的IT使用趋势继续下去，德国数据中心的能源消耗将进一步增加，到2020年将超过140亿千瓦时。这种增长的原因主要是支持互联网的终端用户设备和联网传感器数量的增加。此外，越来越多的处理正在从终端用户设备转移到数据中心。

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