Add HP to the list of IT companies using large datacenter projects to showcase their energy-efficient practices and wares. The company today announced that it's consolidated 14 separate datacenters in Bangalore, India into one high-density, 70,000 square foot research facility, cooled by the largest implementation of HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling (DSC) system to date.
Released in September, DSC employs sensors to monitor the temperatures of invidual server racks and adjust to meet their respective cooling needs.
The idea behind the system is, it saves on cooling costs because it eliminates the need to blast A/C throughout the entire datacenter at a low temperature. (Having visited HP's research datacenter in Palo Alto, Calif. where Dynamic Smart Cooling is used, I can attest to the fact that it doesn't feel at all like, say, Antarctica.)
The Bangalore facility has a total of 7,500 DSC sensors, monitoring the temperatures of a heterogenous environment of older legacy equipment and newer server racks and blades, according to HP. The DSC deployment, HP reports, is yielding a 20 percent reduction in cooling power consumption.
When fully optimized, the datacenter is expected to yield up to a 40 percent reduction in energy consumption over today's typical datacenter cooling methods, HP says. The company anticipates it will save 7,500 megawatt-hours annually.
As part of the sensor network, an agile mechanism responds to facility failures, anomalies and brown outs.
HP says it was able to remotely conduct the implementation of the DSC technology at the Bangalore datacenter from its facility in Palo Alto. Moreover, the company is able to monitor the datacenter from the California lab.