Follow the money: Chasing cheap data centre power
Posted by: Dedicated Servers in Uncategorized, tags: Carnegie Mellon University, Electricity Supply, Energy Cost, Energy Savings, Follow The Money, Internet Content, Mit, Register, Routing Algorithm, Server Infrastructure, Technology Review, Traffic, WorkloadsIt will soon be possible for data centre operators to move workloads between data centres in pursuit of the cheapest electricity supply. As reported in the MIT Technology Review, researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Akamai developed and tested a routing algorithm that showed energy savings of up to 40% could be made by moving workloads from expensively-supplied data centres to ones with cheaper electricity.
The MIT researchers worked with Akamai and its internet content distributed server infrastructure to use its traffic routing data to test out their ideas. They tracked over three years of electricity supply costs in 29 cities in the USA. With this data to hand a routing algorithm was developed that calculated energy cost savings if data workloads were moved from high-cost-to low-cost data centres.
Source: The Register
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