Network integrated power architecture for terrestrial and modular data center contexts

Abstract

The transition to renewable energy is a strategy that has been recognized for future data centers seeking to limit environmental emissions. In addition, innovation has led data center operators to install high-capacity renewable energy farms. However, the energy outputs from these farms are not totally utilized during the epochs of low server utilization. The surplus energy can be used to operate modular data center systems experiencing a power deficit. The presented research proposes an architecture to use surplus power in terrestrial data centers is used to meet the power deficit in modular data center systems. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism increases the power available to the modular data center by 78.3%. In addition, the proposed mechanism increases the number of communication epochs for modular data centers by 49.7% on average.