Towards the design and operation of net-zero energy data centers

InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITHERM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 552-561

  Arlitt, Martin ^a   Bash, Cullen ^a   Blagodurov, Sergey ^a   Chen, Yuan ^a   Christian, Tom ^a   Gmach, Daniel ^a   Hyser, Chris ^a   Kumari, Niru ^a   Liu, Zhenhua ^a   Marwah, Manish ^a   McReynolds, Alan ^a   Patel, Chandrakant ^a   Shah, Amip ^a   Wang, Zhikui ^a   Zhou, Rongliang ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

data center; net zero energy; renewable energy; sustainability

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL COSTS; DATA CENTERS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; ENERGY DATA; ENERGY USAGE; GRID POWER; NET-ZERO ENERGY; PRODUCTION DATA; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLES; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84866153976     PISSN: 19363958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2012.6231479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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