(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European data center operator EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) announced on Tuesday it has lowered the average Power Usage Effectiveness of its data center from 1.6 in 2008 to 1.5 in 2009.
As a result, the data center has increased its energy savings from 40 to 50 percent when compared to a conventional data center.
The announcement comes just a couple months after the EvoSwitch’s signing of the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency, in which it became one of a few European data centers that pledged to reduce their energy consumption by 20 percent by the year 2020.
EvoSwitch says its ultimate goal is to achieve an energy savings rate of 80 percent.
Eric Boonstra, managing director of EvoSwitch, attributes this extra savings primarily to “further investments in green technology and in control systems” and “the expansion due to customer growth in 2009″.
“The number 1.5 indicates that our operations at EvoSwitch are quite energy-efficient, although we still have not achieved our goal,” says Boonstra. “We started with a PUE of 1.8 in early 2007. One year ago, the PUE was 1.6. We now have a PUE of 1.5, but we will continue to invest in further energy savings. This is critical to EvoSwitch and to our customers, since the negative impact on the environment caused by the data center sector should be kept to an absolute minimum. In addition, energy prices will rise, and we want to be able to keep our energy bills, and those of our customers, at an affordable level.”
EvoSwitch uses much of its energy savings to finance its current and new investments in green technologies.
Using the advice of TNO (www.tno.nl), EvoSwitch operates a data center with an energy-efficient design that features technologies such as free cooling, cold corridors and UPS technology with delta conversion.
The company says its R&D team is currently working on a new cooling design that aims to achieve a PUE of 1.2.
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