Seminar ICTFootprint.eu

Many sources of energy loss in ICT
Jaak Vlasveld explained how to achieve energy efficiency gains without impacting performance and stability of ICT, illustrating sustainable ICT approaches, which are listed under “How to procure and manage sustainable ICT”. One big part of making ICT sustainable is to improve the energy efficiency in servers and data servers, which process and store high volumes of data. There are many sources of energy loss, mostly from IT equipment activity, cooling fans and conversion, compromising the overall efficiency of ICT infrastructures. It is common that only 1% of the energy is used by the CPU’s equipment, compared to the amount of energy that has to be generated so the equipment can work.

Servers are used on average at 15% of their full capacity. The absence of consolidating procedures in servers prevents them to reach 60% of their capacity.

High Energy Savings potential from Public Procurement
According to Dr Rabih Bashroush (EURECA Project Coordinator), there are many challenges for the Public sector to improve their energy efficiency, one of them being the lack of technical expertise. The EURECA project supports the public sector with the uptake & procurement of innovative energy efficient and environmentally sound data centre products and services, by helping them identify energy savings opportunities.

They provide an easy-to-use online tool, focused on data centres, to guide, train and support with a customised report, highlighting energy savings opportunities and relevant areas of the EU Code of Conduct that can be applied. Plus, Eureca organises training and networking sessions on data centres energy efficiency targeting data centre managers, procurers, and policy makers.

The text has been copied from the summary made after the webinar.

Here is the link of the webinar, where the video presentation and PowerPoint are also published: https://ictfootprint.eu/en/webinar/tools-and-services-energy-management .