Server Electricity Power Consumption Data Center Model Planning: The heat is on to reduce energy consumption in the data center. Your corporate wallet demands it as energy costs soar. Your data center reliability demands it as you increase server installations. And your planet clamors for it as power utility emissions contribute to air pollution and global warming. Learn about data center server electrical power consumption and data center reliability.

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The heat is on to reduce energy consumption in the data center. Your corporate wallet demands it as energy costs soar. Your data center reliability demands it as you increase server installations. And your planet clamors for it as power utility emissions contribute to air pollution and global warming.

Experts around the world including academics, government agencies, consultants, analysts, systems manufacturers, and more, are coming together to form collective intelligence around the growing energy demands of today's high-density enterprise servers and data center facilities. A first step in this dialogue was a summit held in Santa Clara, California on January 31, 2006, hosted by AMD, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Sun. Highlights are recapped throughout this article.

"There are two major reasons for businesses to strive for reductions in energy use in their data centers," says Jonathan Koomey, staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and consulting professor at Stanford University. "A lower power bill is one obvious benefit. But reliability is the #1 issue in data centers, and efficient servers reduce heat in these facilities, which means higher reliability."