Aspectos de eficiência energética e emissões de carbono em data centers: indicadores

Abstract

Nowadays, Data Centers have assumed a prominent role in people's lives. Applications, social networks, data repositories, are stored in these structures presenting high rates of availability, which in other words translates and redundancy. These structures consume an expressive percentage of the energy consumed in the world and this percentage has grown, since the demand for these services only increases. Because they represent private interests, obtaining data from these Data Centers is complex, several authors have reported this, and that many data currently are estimates. In an attempt to break down corporate resilience and to provide subsidies for them to evaluate their efficiency, institutions such as The Green Grid has developed a series of indicators to measure the energy efficiency of data centers. This study deals with these initiatives and strategies to facilitate the adoption of these indicators.