Just to keep everyone on their toes—especially those who can see my calendar, I have switched session to see an interactive one. I thought I would be good to understand the issues surrounding the green datacenter given that we are just getting started on the new ISS building. Let's see what happens.
AMD, Citi, Dell, HP, Intel, Green M3, Microsoft. An impressive cross-section of people in the panel.
- Harvey Cobbold, CitiGroup
- Ed English, Dell
- Michael Manos, Microsoft
- Ramon Huesa, AMD
- Nigel Bridgeman, HP
- Kevin O'Donovan, Intel
- Dave Ohara, Green M3 (moderator)
Citigroup are spending $232M on a new datacenter—saving 11000 tonnes of CO2 and cutting energy use by 75%.
$0.5B data center being built by MSFT in Dublin, complete by mid-2009, with tens of thousands of servers.
Interesting that very early on—talking about the roof on the data center, the operational costs might be lower for the green solution, but the initial capital cost is higher. When we looked at value engineering the new ISS building, did we look at capital plus three years, five years, twenty years? Interesting, for a 20 year lifespan, the capital cost of a datacenter is 6%-10%... that's very low.
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8110
So it seems that these guys have not developed a set of KPIs—instead they seem to be responding to legislative bodies. Disappointing. It might be worth us looking at what the EU is doing, as, in the lifespan of the new ISS building, we may have to comply…
There seems to be a lot of tap-dancing in this session. No one seems to have KPIs or long term targets for their efficiency of their computer power—without that, the notion of a green datacentre is really a marketing ploy, not an environmentally responsible initiative…
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