Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

Data centers form a key part of the infrastructure upon which a variety of information
technology services are built. As data centers continue to grow in size and complexity, it is …

The drive for higher performance and energy efficiency in data-centers has influenced
trends toward increased power and cooling requirements in the facilities. Since enterprise …

The energy consumption of under-utilized resources, particularly in a cloud environment,
accounts for a substantial amount of the actual energy use. Inherently, a resource allocation …

Data center power consumption is growing to unprecedented levels: the EPA estimates US
data centers will consume 100 billion kilowatt hours annually by 2011. Much of this energy is …

Virtualization is often used in cloud computing platforms for its several advantages in
efficiently managing resources. However, virtualization raises certain additional challenges …

There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that
host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a …

Power management has become increasingly necessary in large-scale datacenters to
address costs and limitations in cooling or power delivery. This paper explores how to …

The volume of landfill gas (LFG) produced during municipal solid waste (MSW)
decomposition in local landfills has increased rapidly in recent years. To promote circular …

Data center power is a scarce resource that often goes underutilized due to conservative
planning. This is because the penalty for overloading the data center power delivery …