Future data center energy-conservation and emission-reduction technologies in the context of smart and low-carbon city construction

H Zhu, D Zhang, HH Goh, S Wang, T Ahmad… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy consumption of data centers accounts for approximately 1% of that of the world,
the average power usage effectiveness is in the range of 1.4–1.6, and the associated carbon …

A Review on efficient thermal management of air-and liquid-cooled data centers: From chip to the cooling system

AH Khalaj, SK Halgamuge - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The growing global demand for services offered by data centers (DCs) has increased their
total power consumption and carbon emissions. Recent figures revealed that DCs account …

A review of energy efficiency evaluation metrics for data centers

X Shao, Z Zhang, P Song, Y Feng, X Wang - Energy and buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid development of the Internet requires data center infrastructures to be extended to
a large scale with a higher power capacity and a reduction in energy consumption and …

Cooling of server electronics: A design review of existing technology

AC Kheirabadi, D Groulx - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
This review quantitatively examines and compares the heat transfer characteristics of
several cooling technologies with potential application in the server electronics industry …

Natural and forced convection heat transfer characteristics of single-phase immersion cooling systems for data centers

Y Huang, J Ge, Y Chen, C Zhang - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving power usage effectiveness (PUE) in data centers becomes a key challenge for
carbon neutrality and carbon peaking strategies. In this context, this paper investigates the …

Free cooling of data centers: A review

H Zhang, S Shao, H Xu, H Zou, C Tian - Renewable and sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
The growing demand for electricity and the increasing size of the carbon footprint of data
centers worldwide bring a severe challenge to sustainable development of human …

Energy efficiency and renewable energy integration in data centres. Strategies and modelling review

E Oró, V Depoorter, A Garcia, J Salom - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous growth in size, complexity and energy density of data centres due to the
increasing demand for storage, networking and computation has become a worldwide …

Sustainability analysis of zero energy consumption data centers with free cooling, waste heat reuse and renewable energy systems: A feasibility study

GN Güğül, F Gökçül, U Eicker - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy consumption of data centers (DC) has increased rapidly over the past years.
Regional studies are an effective way to find the optimal integration of renewable energy …

Improving energy and water consumption of a data center via air free-cooling economization: The effect weather on its performance

L Silva-Llanca, C Ponce, E Bermúdez… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, data centers have significantly grown in size and number around
the globe, leading to substantial energy and water stress wherever they operate. Thermal …

A review on airflow management in data centers

WX Chu, CC Wang - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This study provides a review upon airflow management in data centers. Based on the
available airflow path, cooling systems in data centers are categorized as long-distance …