Towards Building a Sustainable System of Data Center Cooling and Power Management Utilizing Renewable Energy

Abstract

Data centers have become essential to the increasing IT industry. This research proposes a sustainable data center cooling and powering management system using renewable energy. The study offers a hybrid approach for cooling and powering data centers with renewable energy (wind and solar) based on geographical location and availability, including a survey with experts who have experience working related to data centers. This research has taken several surveys to analyze the proposed model’s feasibility and shown a smaller data center’s calculation and cost-saving estimation to evaluate the approximate costs after incorporating renewable sources in powering data centers. The study also aims to utilize grid electricity as a secondary source and renewable energy as a primary one. The feasibility of the suggested strategy was assessed in this research using the physical location of Bangladesh and the advice of experts.