Feb 22
power, cooling and data centers
Essential report to anyone involved in the data center business. The scary facts:
A 1MW Data Center takes 177 Million kWH
– Worth approx $17mil over it’s 10 year life (at .10 cents per kWH)
source: APC-MGE
• By 2008, 50% of today’s Data Centers will have insufficient
power and cooling;
– By 2009, energy costs will become the 2nd highest cost of a Data
Center
source: Gartner
• By 2010, half of all (Enterprise) Data Centers will have to
relocate or outsource applications to another facility.
– During the next 5 years, 90% of all companies will experience some
kind of power disruption. In that same period one in four companies
will experience a significant business disruption
source: Data Center Institute
• Humans created 161 Exabytesof data in 2006.
– Approximately 3 Million times the information in all the books, ever
written
source: IDC
Power and cooling being the key issue here, I can’t understand why there is no booming data centers business in Québec, a province with huge water resources, cheap electricity and fiber availability.
