Data center power consumption has become a major concern as demand grows and utilities struggle to keep up. Operators are looking for ways to reduce energy use.
Why it matters: Data centers are power hogs, and a key issue that operators have been trying to solve is how to reduce their energy and resource consumption. Some ingenious remedies have been found, such as using non-potable seawater to cool equipment, but one obvious solution appears to have been overlooked: enabling processors’ various power-saving capabilities.
Data center power consumption has become a major concern as demand grows and utilities struggle to keep up. Operators are looking for ways to reduce energy use and costs, with many developing novel ways of cooling equipment and maximizing data center design.
A new post by Uptime Institute suggests enabling built-in power management features on servers could significantly reduce energy consumption. It says that OS-level governors and power profiles could reduce energy use by 25-50 percent, while enabling processor C-states could reduce idle power by nearly 20 percent.
