(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center and IT solutions provider Consonus (www.consonus.com) has announced the latest Power Usage Effectiveness score for its 15-year-old West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which reflect the energy efficiency gains achieved through recent renovations.
Developed by The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org), a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, PUE measures how efficiently a computer data center uses its power. Represented as a ratio between the total facility power and the power used to run IT and supporting systems, the lower the PUE level, the more energy efficient the data center.
According to Consonus’ Thursday announcement, its West Data Center PUE score was 1.35, considerably lower than the industry average, which is typically between 2.0 and 2.2. Some of the energy efficiency improvements made to the data center have included a new evaporative cooling tower, cold aisle containment, ducted return systems, high efficiency floor tiles, and Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling and analysis.
“The fact that we were able to significantly improve the PUE score of an existing facility debunks a common myth shared by many – that these scores are only achievable in new facilities” said Daniel Milburn, senior vice president and chief operating officer of hosting and infrastructure services for Consonus. “We made strategic changes and added cost-effective green technologies to provide a data center that is not only state-of-the-art, but one that now out performs many efficiency benchmarks.”
These energy efficiency initiatives are a part of company-wide efforts that focus on the usage of green technologies to improve data center power consumption while reducing the company’s carbon footprint.
Last month, Consonus was awarded the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR rating for its South Data Center, also located in Salt Lake City This designation marked the first time a commercial data center has achieved this rating, and puts Consonus in the top quartile for energy efficiency among data center peers.
“This past year we have completed over 40 initiatives to improve data center energy efficiency,” Consonus chief information officer Brent Wall said in a statement. “This score is proof that we were successful in our efforts to reduce power consumption.”
The company also reports that further improvements to other Consonus data centers are slated to take place in the coming year.
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