Birmingham Jisc Feb 25

GREEN ICT- Current and Future

Challenges

Peter James & Lisa HopkinsonUniversity of Bradford

www.goodcampus.orgwww.susteit.org.uk

THE DARK FOOTPRINT OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Heavy Burdens and …. Steam Computers

SUSTEIT FINDINGS 2% of global CO2 emissions Sheffield

- £1 million + electricity bill- 47% desktop related

HE sector wide- 760,000 PCs- 215,000 servers- 147,000 networked printers- £60 million + energy bill- 275,000 tonnes of CO2

Equipment/Systems

Buildings

Campus

Organisation

Building Certificates– DEC; EPC

Emission Trading Scheme

Inspection- Cooling

Codes of Conduct - Data Centres

BREEAM Higher Education

Environmental Management Systems- EcoCampus- 14001

HE Funding Body Requirements- BREAM;- Carbon- EMS

Universities That Count

Renewable & Low Carbon Requirements

Green League Table

Procurement- Quick Wins

Climate ChangeAct

Holistic – all impacts

Key

Energy & Carbon only

Current

Future

Inter-linked

U&C Climate Commitment for Scotland

Carbon Trust- HE CMP- Standard

Carbon Reduction Commitment

Building Regulations

GREEN IT AGENDAS 2010 Desktop energy efficiency

- low power- power management

Data centre energy efficiency- air management- free/controlled cooling- power supply

Synergistic architectures- thin/thick/think client- virtualisation (& powerdown)- remote learning/processing etc

GREEN IT AGENDAS 2010

Full costing Financial responsibility Cross-functional

collaboration User involvement/

resistance Security and privacy Inclusion

GREEN IT 2020 – POTENTIAL BAD NEWS More of the same

- increasing device numbers offsetting per unit efficiency improvements

Increasing functionality New (HPC) applications Gargantuan storage Vast network traffic

GREEN IT 2020? Low impact materials All-optical data transfer Process efficient software Open source/standards A genuinely sustainable cloud?

- net zero carbon data centres- in developing countries

System integration

NET ZERO CARBON DATA CENTERS

More efficient equipment Innovative cooling

- water; CO2- dielectric (Iceotope)

Heat recovery? On-site renewables More power storage Integrated planning

Primary circuit (sealed coolant)

Secondary circuit (local water)

Final circuit (building water)

Iceotope

End to End Liquid Cooling

Currently 30KW/Cabinet – Potential for 60KW/Cabinet

No Chillers Needed

Potential for water proof design

High thermal mass

Beta Product Running in UK

SMART 2020

SMART 2020- ICT can cut global 2020 CO2 emissions by 12% net

Smart metering Intelligent buildings New ways of working New university models?