Telehouse's 39th data center, located in Shanghai
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (www.lbl.gov) is working with China to improve the energy efficiency of the country’s data centers, according to a report by PhysOrg.com.
The project is being run by Dale Sartor, head of the Building Technology’s Applications Team, and Bo Shen of the China Energy Group.
The Berkeley Lab scientists will work with the China Institute of Electronics and the China Electronics Standardization Institute to “share best practices, case studies and other material” to help form standards and training programs for China’s data center industry.
Sarton says that China has a wide range of energy efficiency within its data centers but ultimately shows “a lot of room for improvement.”
China is looking to take the appropriate measures in order to improve its energy efficiency, which can partly be attributed to the government mandate to reduce the economy’s energy output.
The country also has greater cost incentives for data centers than in other countries.
Considering that China’s data center industry is still in its early developmental stages, Sarton says that there is still time to improve its energy effiency before it experiences significant growth.
China differs from the US in that the telecommunications industry has taken the lead over the IT industry in dominating the data center market.
Another major difference between China’s data center market compared to the US is that most data centers in China are owned and run by the government.
Sector says that this difference could be advantageous if they can “convince the government to make the changes… they can make the changes quicker.”
Berkeley Lab is also hoping to work with China to install technologies such as warm-water liquid cooling and DC power through its partner agency.
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