New Energy Efficient Data Center

New Energy Efficient
Data Center
Completed
February 2017
Data Center Electricity
Usage
18%
savings
Boyer Building
(kWh)
Aug ‘16
Feb ‘17
154,125
68,357
Boyer New Data
Center (kWh)
58,775
Total (kWh)
154,125
127,132
New Energy Efficient
Measures
Illuminated
completely by high-efficiency LED
lighting
State-of-the-Art
 Cools
cold aisle containment system
servers only, not the entire room
Individual power monitoring
Thin Client vs.
Traditional PCs
 We
currently have 16 thin client labs
across campus which contain 242
thin clients
These
thin clients use less electricity
than 30 traditional PCs
Why Thin Clients…
 Last
longer than traditional PCs
 Generate
 Result
 Uses
less heat
in less E-Waste
only 6watts of electricity