EFFICIENT UTILISATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY IN THE DATA CENTRE OF THE HS AUGSBURG BY USING SMART METERING

Energy Efficiency is becoming an important concern in the design and management of data centres (DCs). For example, the data centres in Germany consumed 1.8 % of the total electricity consumption in 2008 [1]. Estimates also indicate that national energy consumption by servers and data centres could nearly double within five years [1, 2]. Many organizations have started looking for answers to the significant increase in power consumption in DCs. In this article, we describe the efforts taken by the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (HS Augsburg) to make its DC more energy efficient than it is today.