New technology reduces data centre energy consumption by more than 20 percent

Energy-aware plug-in enables significant energy and cost savings in data centres ICT as a whole is responsible for about 2% of global CO2 emissions, a figure equivalent to the fuel consumption of aviation. Data centres are a significant part of ICT. The energy related costs total over 40% of data centres’ expenses. FIT4Green project found solutions that reduce data centre energy consumption by more than 20 percent.FIT4Green –project concentrated in finding new solutions for saving energy in data centres. The project designed and implemented an energy-aware plug-in on top of the current