October 6, 2008

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Google-designed data centers are the most efficient in the world, according to a post on the company’s blog by Urs Hölzle, Google’s senior vice president of Operations.

Pointing to the chart above, the post says that:

Our data centers use considerably less energy for the servers themselves, and much less energy for cooling, than a typical data center. We achieved this milestone by significantly reducing the amount of energy needed for the data center facility overhead. Specifically, Google-designed data centers use nearly five times less energy than conventional facilities to feed and cool the computers inside. Our engineers worked hard to optimize every element in the data center, from the chip to the cooling tower.

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