IT Business : Computing Canada

December 27th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

IT Business : Computing Canada

A recent study at the University of New Hampshire found that 38 per cent of the U.S.’s power supply was being absorbed by data centres. According to IDC, businesses will need an additional 12 million square feet of data centre space by 2009.

“That means that businesses are going to spend nearly $720 million per year in utility costs to power the systems that will take the space of two football fields, which roughly equates to half of the Great Wall of China,” said Gargan.

Very interesting article, IBM are making efforts to develop a more power efficient design for their bladecenter product ranges.

“Using IBM (AMD) Opteron-based blades, a customer can save up to $168,000 over three years in power, cooling and hosting costs,” he said. “IBM BladeCenter would need 110 less square feet of floor space than HP’s (C-Class).”

The article shows how little changes in power consumption can lead to significant cost implications, $168,000 is not to be ignored, that said, comparisons are a guide, and should be taken as such, unless independently verified.

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