Apr 11, 2008 : Citi Shocked by Energy Consumption
📅 - Financial organization Citi (citigroup.com) says that as it nears the construction of a major sustainable data center, it is surprised to find that the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 percent per year.
Despite the banking group's energy consumption remaining the same or being even less in some cases, the amount of electricity used by IT equipment within its facilities is continuing to increase, said John Killey, head of realty services for Citi, at yesterday's Finexpo Green City event in London, UK.
"We are seeing major problems from consumption of electricity," Killey said. "Although we are seeing energy consumption staying static or reducing from an engineering perspective, there was a 12.5 increase [in electricity consumption] in our data centers last year."
Killey, who leads Citi's development and construction of new facilities, said that the increasing energy consumption of the company's IT equipment depends on the efficiency of the computer systems in each facility, rather than the facilities' architecture themselves.
The banking organization recently built two new sustainable data centers. The most recent, a £86 million data center in Frankfurt, Germany, was first announced last July. Citi said at the time that the facility would be "one of the greenest data centers worldwide".
The company also said at the time that the facility would save up to 25 percent on electrical energy consumption compared to conventional data centers and 16,000MW hours each year, which is enough energy to power 3,000 family homes for a year.
Though the Frankfurt data center has not yet been fitted with IT equipment, Killey says that once it is up and running, the addition of a green facility will take a while to affect the overall power consumption increase within the company's IT infrastructure.
Killey said that while the new sustainable-data center projects are admirable, these facilities fail to solve the problems brought along by existing, less efficient sites.
The 100,000 square foot, 1,000W-per-square-metre Frankfurt facility has been designed to make the most of sustainable building practices, said Killey, adding that the site's capital costs were eight percent less than a typical site.
The site is also said to save about 11,700 tonnes of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to the yearly carbon output of around 900 UK citizens and would cost around £100,000 to offset, says ClimateCare. The facility includes wooden cladding on the outside and a roof with grass planted in a layer of soil on top of a plastic membrane.
In May 2007, Citi announced it would embark on a $50 million project to tackle climate change, and said it would invest up to $10 billion to reduce its own environmental footprint.
Despite the banking group's energy consumption remaining the same or being even less in some cases, the amount of electricity used by IT equipment within its facilities is continuing to increase, said John Killey, head of realty services for Citi, at yesterday's Finexpo Green City event in London, UK.
"We are seeing major problems from consumption of electricity," Killey said. "Although we are seeing energy consumption staying static or reducing from an engineering perspective, there was a 12.5 increase [in electricity consumption] in our data centers last year."
Killey, who leads Citi's development and construction of new facilities, said that the increasing energy consumption of the company's IT equipment depends on the efficiency of the computer systems in each facility, rather than the facilities' architecture themselves.
The banking organization recently built two new sustainable data centers. The most recent, a £86 million data center in Frankfurt, Germany, was first announced last July. Citi said at the time that the facility would be "one of the greenest data centers worldwide".
The company also said at the time that the facility would save up to 25 percent on electrical energy consumption compared to conventional data centers and 16,000MW hours each year, which is enough energy to power 3,000 family homes for a year.
Though the Frankfurt data center has not yet been fitted with IT equipment, Killey says that once it is up and running, the addition of a green facility will take a while to affect the overall power consumption increase within the company's IT infrastructure.
Killey said that while the new sustainable-data center projects are admirable, these facilities fail to solve the problems brought along by existing, less efficient sites.
The 100,000 square foot, 1,000W-per-square-metre Frankfurt facility has been designed to make the most of sustainable building practices, said Killey, adding that the site's capital costs were eight percent less than a typical site.
The site is also said to save about 11,700 tonnes of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to the yearly carbon output of around 900 UK citizens and would cost around £100,000 to offset, says ClimateCare. The facility includes wooden cladding on the outside and a roof with grass planted in a layer of soil on top of a plastic membrane.
In May 2007, Citi announced it would embark on a $50 million project to tackle climate change, and said it would invest up to $10 billion to reduce its own environmental footprint.
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