US delegation meets Borderstep data centre experts
From 22 to 26 September, a US delegation from the state of Virginia will be visiting Berlin and Frankfurt. Virginia is one of the world’s largest data centre locations – right next to Washington, D.C. The strong growth of this industry is accompanied by enormous challenges in terms of energy requirements and the sustainable design of the infrastructure.
Exchange with experts from the data centre industry
The tour group is made up of representatives from industry, government organisations and research institutions. The visit will focus on an exchange with experts from the German data centre industry on key sustainability issues such as energy supply, waste heat utilisation and resource efficiency.
The Borderstep Institute will also contribute its many years of expertise to the dialogue. Employees of the institute will give presentations on the current situation of German data centres and on ways to reconcile energy efficiency and climate neutrality with digitalisation.
Borderstep expertise
The Borderstep Institute has been researching the power consumption of data centre since 2007. This is based on a structural model of the data centre landscape in Germany and Europe developed at the institute, which has been regularly updated since 2012.
The model describes data centres of different sizes, their equipment with server types, storage systems and network technology as well as their building technology (air conditioning, power supply, UPS). It also takes into account differences between cloud, edge and traditional data centres as well as the age structure and energy consumption of the servers used.
Borderstep thus makes an important contribution to scientific analysis and the development of solutions for an energy-efficient and climate-friendly data centre infrastructure.
An overview of current Borderstep research projects in the field of digitalisation and green IT can be found here.
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