Solar Synergy: Innovative Strategies for Data Centers Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
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Data Centers, Traffic-Aware, Power Management, Energy Efficiency, Power Consumption, Renewable Energy, Solar PanelsAbstract
One of the current trends related to data centers is providing it with renewable energy sources.
This paper suggests an analysis technique for a model uses solar panels energy to power a data center
consists of 100 traditional servers, physical infrastructures, 5 backup batteries. The analysis passes through
three phases: Initially, the power consumption model of the data center is proposed to show the variation
in traffic and total energy consumed. Then, a solar system model is designed according to the power needed.
The suitable size of PV was found to be 613 solar panels that delivers an energy of 2.967MWh. At the last
phase, the desired battery capacity is chosen as (10000Ah×48V) to accommodate the solar energy
production. The problem occurred when there is a shortage in solar batteries’ energy especially, during the
night when no sunlight exists. An integration method between using the solar energy with traffic
consolidation technique (ON/OFF algorithm) is suggested to overcome this issue and extend the battery
life. Finally, this model is evaluated by the number of active servers according to the number of batteries
available since it found that it reduced to (10-35) % of the total number when only 4 batteries are used and
the effective power provided will be between (1.68-1.904) MWh with an energy saving of about 867KWh
for the case of only 10% of the total servers are active.
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