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Green IT
Challenges and Opportunities
Lisa Hopkinson
University of Bradford, UK
Climate Dialogue
Hong Kong, 3 November 2010
About Us
HEEPI – Higher Education Environmental Performance Initiative
Centrally funded to support UK universities www.goodcampus.org
SusteIT – Sustainable ICT in Tertiary Education
JISC-funded project – strategic review of ICT in FHE, identifying and
disseminating good practice www.susteit.org.uk
JISC – Joint Information Systems Committee
Central HE/FE body to support the innovative use of ICT to support
education and research www.jisc.ac.uk
Why Green IT?
Economics
- Rising energy prices
Compliance
- Growing regulations
Corporate Social Responsibility
- reputation
Operations
- e.g. Lack of space
IT Environmental Impacts
•Energy
•2% global CO2
emissions
•Resources
•Waste
IT Lifecycle Impacts
•Extraction
•Manufacturing
•Assembly
•Distribution
•Use
•Disposal
IT Lifecycle Impacts
Key Environmental Impacts of the Chinese EEE-Industry
2007 Lifecycle study by EMPA
Manufacturing phase of desktop PC
biggest impacts are production of
integrated circuits (IC)
- the energy of the process itself,
- the wafer production and
- the refining of precious metals (e.g.
1g gold produces ~ 1t waste)
IT Toxic Components
IT Waste Impacts
Desktop + LCD
~30 components each
~20kg materials
~66 kg waste over
lifecycle
IT Energy Impacts
Hidden Energy Impacts
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians?
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php
Uni of Sheffield - IT Energy
ICT Electricity
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More than £1M/year
About 20% electricity
use
PCs dominate
Servers: over 30%
(including HPC &
departmental)
1%
HPC
2%
10%
14%
Servers
8%
PCs
17%
Networks
Telephony
Imaging
48%
Analysis by Chris Cartledge, 2008
AV
Lifecycle energy of PCs
16000
14000
Total Energy (MJ)
12000
10000
Production
8000
Distribution
6000
Use
End of life
4000
2000
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Desktop
Laptop
CRT
LCD
-2000
Source IVF, 2007. Preparatory studies for Eco-Design Requirements of Energy using Products
Energy Costs of PCs
HK electricity price HK$0.89/kWh
Rough rule of thumb HK$8/Watt/year
Typical PC is 115W (Gartner) = HK$920/y
Some Servers are 450 watts+ = HK$3600/y
Action on PCs
Basic power management (incl. turn off
screensavers)
Energy efficient PCs – Energy Star
Dematerialise – laptops/thin clients
Reuse of equipment
Power Management
Most PCs idle for most of
the time – similar energy
to active mode
Many PCs left on
overnight – standby
power adds up
Case – power down PCs
University Liverpool >3,000 PCs
Most idle for much of day
Simple powerdown software
Shuts down PC if idle, if noone
logged in
Saved ~HK$800,000/y
http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/greenit/powerdown/index.htm
Lisa Nelson who developed
the software
Energy Star Ecolabel
Voluntary labelling scheme for office products
Database of most efficient models
Updated spec for PCs and monitors in 2009
Only deals with energy IN USE
www.eu-energystar.org
http://www.emsd.gov.hk/emsd/e_download/pee/veels_computer.pdf
EU Code of Conduct on
Data Centres
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A European Action to Improve Energy Efficiency
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http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/html/standby_initiative_data%20cente
rs.htm
Best Practice Guidelines to enable change
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About 120 good practices: covers all issues
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Including on setting up a project to bring about change
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An excellent, readable, How To Do It guide
EU Code of Conduct –
recommendations
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Buy energy efficient IT devices
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Use virtualised servers and storage
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Switch off hardware for unused services
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Virtualise little used services
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Separate cold air from heated return air
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Use free or economised cooling
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Increase temperature set points
Data Centre PUE
Power Utilisation Effectiveness (PUE)
- ratio of total energy (ie servers + support) to server
energy
1990s centres 2.0 +
Cardiff University HPC cluster 1.3
University of St Andrews new facility 1.2
Cap Gemini, Swindon 1.08
Carbon PUEs below 1
Net Zero Carbon Data Centres
High efficiency equipment
Process efficient software
Innovative cooling
Heat recovery
On-site renewables
More power storage
Integrated planning
Case – Low Energy Servers
•University of Sheffield
Research group MESAS
•2 computer clusters
•Purchased low energy servers
•Saved HK$7,000/y in energy,
2 year payback, reduced
cooling.
Image © Multiscale Engineering and
Science Simulation At Sheffield (MESAS)
Case – Holistic Data Centre Design
•University of Cardiff new data centre
•256 80W quad core servers in 6 racks
•High efficiency UPS, low power servers
•Hot aisle/cold aisle
•Chilled water cooling (free cooling)
•PUE 1.3
Photos courtesy
Hugh Beedie
Greening Government ICT
UK government strategy July 2008
Aims for government ICT systems:
- Energy consumption carbon neutral by 2012
- Carbon neutral across lifetime by 2020
1 year on:
- each dept has green IT action plan
-savings of 12,000 t C and > £6.8 million
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/141533/greening_gov_ict080724.pdf
Green IT Enabling
SMART 2020
“ICT’s largest influence will be by enabling energy efficiencies in other
sectors, an opportunity that could deliver carbon savings five times larger
than the total emissions from the entire ICT sector in 2020”
ICT can cut global CO2 emissions by 15% by 2020
•Smart Motors
•Smart Logistics
•Smart Buildings
•Smart Grid
Thank you!
[email protected]
www.goodcampus.org and www.susteit.org.uk
Thanks also to the organisers:
The Professional Commons, Internet Society Hong Kong, IT Voice
and Civic Exchange, Democratic Party, Office of Sin Chung Kai and
Community Development Initiative
單仲偕辦 事處
“Office of Sin Chung Kai”