Amount Spent on Energy in US Data Centers
is Projected to Top $13 Billion in 2011

HOW WE GOT THIS $13 BILLION HEADACHE

Chip energy usage is growing

Moore’s Law tells us that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 2 years. What this law is silent on is that the wattage of energy used with each chip doubles every 4 years. “Efficient power and thermal management are vital as systems become smaller or more capable with every generation of Moore’s Law.” – Intel(1)

Data Center energy density is exploding

As chip wattage continues to grow, power-hungry servers use an increasing number of chips to speed-up their operations. This means an enormous amount of wattage per square foot in every data center. As bad as this may be, every watt of energy used by a server turns into a watt of heat. Air conditioning systems must remove this enormous heat load, but continue to use antiquated control technology in doing so.

Inefficient cooling creates the opportunity

Removing the highly dynamic heat loads from data cabinets has become the number one problem in data center energy management. The latest figures show that 60% of all data center energy costs are from cooling systems. The Uptime Institute2 and others, show that nearly 60% of that cooling is simply wasted by the inefficient over-cooling the data cabinets.

HOW TRENDPOINT IS SOLVING THE PROBLEM

Our solution uniquely measures data cabinet heat production and matches it with cooling system resources. The result creates a closed-loop system targeted to save at least 25% in cooling costs.

The EnerSure Smart Meter

Our patented EnerSure unit measures the energy consumption for server cabinet and each piece of cooling equipment within a data center. We then provide continuous information on the Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) for the whole data center as well as for each cabinet and segment.

The EnviroCube Air Controller

Our patented EnviroCube receives data about server cabinet heat and location from the EnerSure unit. The EnviroCube then continuously matches the output of an Air Conditioning unit to the heat output of the servers, creating a closed-loop cooling system with maximum efficiency.

Real Results

Our products are used in some of the most mission critical data centers in the world. Results from a large EDS data center in the UK back our goal of reducing cooling energy by at least 25% after implementation of our system.