Data Center Handbook, 2nd Edition

36DRIVE DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT AND BUILD BETTER AI WITH IT DEVICES AS SENSORS

Ajay Garg¹ and Dror Shenkar²

¹ Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, United States of America

² Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel

36.1 INTRODUCTION

The energy costs of data centers continue to rise along with the expansion; Gartner estimates¹ that ongoing power costs are increasing at least 10%/year due to cost per kilowatt‐hour (kWh) increases in underlying demand. It is important that an appropriate data center management strategy is adopted to operate at optimum efficiency, considering the workloads running in a typical data center vary over time.

FIGURE 36.1 Front view temperature layout of a row in a data center.

Source: Intel® Data Center Manager Console screenshot of undisclosed customer.

FIGURE 36.2 Front view temperature layout of a rack in a data center, before and after solving thermal‐related issues.

Source: Intel® Data Center Manager Console screenshot of undisclosed customer.

36.2 CURRENT SITUATION OF DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

Today data centers are divided into two major silos:

• The first silo looks at the data center as a commercial building and is tasked with the management of power and cooling needed by the data center. Typically called facility operations, this group ensures ...