Green Data Center Strategies—2008

Bruce Myatt, Critical Facilities Round Table

This presentation will provide attendees with a broad-based understanding of the green movement and how it will affect the data centers of today and tomorrow. The speaker will address the origins of the current regulatory environment, as well as ongoing programs under development by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ENERGYSTAR, the California Energy Commission, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), The Green Grid, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the Critical Facilities Round Table, and others. He will explore recent information technologies and facilities technologies, considering some of the operating and energy efficiencies that can be attained with them, and explain how to effectively measure and monitor their performance. The presentation will then go on to lay out a program to improve the performance of "existing" data center facilities and also look at major issues to be considered when planning and designing the emerging, "next generation" data center.

Attendees will learn about how they can prepare for government- and institution-recommended programs and where to find help to identify, prioritize, and implement best practices for green data center operations. They will learn about how they can most effectively monitor and measure data center energy efficiency and how they should interpret the results they gather while using the new measurement standards now being developed by government and industry. Attendees will be exposed to state-of-the-art data center energy efficiency assessment tools and programs, as well as issues to be considered for the "right-sizing" of modular and flexible data center facilities. And, finally, specific ideas will be presented to help the attendee develop efficient space, power, and cooling strategies for new and existing facilities.

Biography:

Bruce Myatt, PE, is a registered mechanical engineer and principal partner of EYP Mission Critical Facilities in San Francisco, California, as well as founder of Silicon Valley's Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT). He has over 25 years of engineering consulting experience working with facilities such as data centers, clean rooms, semiconductor fabs, nuclear power plants, and DOE's nuclear weapons production facilities. He has recently led work for LBNL and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) related to data center energy efficiency benchmarking, technology demonstration, and design and retro-commissioning programs. Bruce has actively pioneered server cooling solutions that isolate air flow in order to prevent the "recirculation" and "short-circuiting" of chilled air in data center environments. He has been selected as a technical advisor to DOE, EPA, CEC, LBNL, and PG&E Committees focused on data center energy efficiency, and he has provided data center energy efficiency presentations to audiences at Data Center Dynamics, 7x24 Exchange, IFMA, Building Automation, Teladata, and PG&E Customer Energy Efficiency conferences. Bruce is co-chairman of the CFRT High Density Data Center Committee; member of the Board of Advisors and technical columnist for Energy & Power Management (now Mission Critical) Magazine; member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Committee; Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sigma Phi Delta International Social-Professional Engineering Fraternity; and a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area.

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