birmingham jisc feb 25
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Green ICT - Current and Future ChallengesTRANSCRIPT
GREEN ICT- Current and Future
Challenges
Peter James & Lisa HopkinsonUniversity of Bradford
www.goodcampus.orgwww.susteit.org.uk
THE DARK FOOTPRINT OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Heavy Burdens and …. Steam Computers
SUSTEIT FINDINGS 2% of global CO2 emissions Sheffield
- £1 million + electricity bill- 47% desktop related
HE sector wide- 760,000 PCs- 215,000 servers- 147,000 networked printers- £60 million + energy bill- 275,000 tonnes of CO2
Equipment/Systems
Buildings
Campus
Organisation
Building Certificates– DEC; EPC
Emission Trading Scheme
Inspection- Cooling
Codes of Conduct - Data Centres
BREEAM Higher Education
Environmental Management Systems- EcoCampus- 14001
HE Funding Body Requirements- BREAM;- Carbon- EMS
Universities That Count
Renewable & Low Carbon Requirements
Green League Table
Procurement- Quick Wins
Climate ChangeAct
Holistic – all impacts
Key
Energy & Carbon only
Current
Future
Inter-linked
U&C Climate Commitment for Scotland
Carbon Trust- HE CMP- Standard
Carbon Reduction Commitment
Building Regulations
GREEN IT AGENDAS 2010 Desktop energy efficiency
- low power- power management
Data centre energy efficiency- air management- free/controlled cooling- power supply
Synergistic architectures- thin/thick/think client- virtualisation (& powerdown)- remote learning/processing etc
GREEN IT AGENDAS 2010
Full costing Financial responsibility Cross-functional
collaboration User involvement/
resistance Security and privacy Inclusion
GREEN IT 2020 – POTENTIAL BAD NEWS More of the same
- increasing device numbers offsetting per unit efficiency improvements
Increasing functionality New (HPC) applications Gargantuan storage Vast network traffic
GREEN IT 2020? Low impact materials All-optical data transfer Process efficient software Open source/standards A genuinely sustainable cloud?
- net zero carbon data centres- in developing countries
System integration
NET ZERO CARBON DATA CENTERS
More efficient equipment Innovative cooling
- water; CO2- dielectric (Iceotope)
Heat recovery? On-site renewables More power storage Integrated planning
Primary circuit (sealed coolant)
Secondary circuit (local water)
Final circuit (building water)
Iceotope
End to End Liquid Cooling
Currently 30KW/Cabinet – Potential for 60KW/Cabinet
No Chillers Needed
Potential for water proof design
High thermal mass
Beta Product Running in UK
SMART 2020
SMART 2020- ICT can cut global 2020 CO2 emissions by 12% net
Smart metering Intelligent buildings New ways of working New university models?