Reducing emissions of data centre activity Microsoft Ireland
Research has been working on electricity grid research that
allows the exact energy consumption and emissions to be measured
for any piece of computation performed in a data centre. This
allows past or predicted emissions to be calculated for any
computation performed in the cloud and opens the doorway to
measuring and reducing the emissions produced by data centres
around the world. In a paper presented at the 11th international
conference on Electrical Power Quality And Utilisation , Conor
Kelly of Microsoft Ireland and Antonio Ruzzelli of University
College Dublin outlined how data centre emissions can be
calculated, and presented sample measurements showing that
performing computation when ample wind energy was available on
the grid emitted less than 1% of the emissions of the same piece
of computation performed at another time when the bulk of the
electricity consumed was produced by fossil fuel power plants.
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