Commercial Buildings Research and Development

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Data Centers

Collage of various images associated with Data Centers research including: The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), an data center facility with an inefficient HVAC system, an illustration representing the typical hot-aisle/cold aisle arrangement of data centers, AC-DC Conversions within Data Centers Result in Energy Losses schematic, a bar chart, and a Computational Fluid Dynamics models

Motivation / Problem Statement

Large constant demand, little prior research / dramatically reduce demand while optimizing cooling of IT equipment.

Activities / Approach

Developed and began execution of research roadmap / industry involvement.

Accomplishments / Outcomes

Energy benchmarking, case studies, UPS and server power supply efficiency studies, design guides, self benchmarking protocol, http://hightech.lbl.gov.

Future / Follow-on

Follow the roadmap/develop performance metrics.

Relationship to Other Projects

Many solutions are applicable to other building types.

Principal Investigator

  • William Tschudi
  • (510) 495-2417

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