Green Technology

IBM and Syracuse University will intregrate green technologies into a new data center, including co-generation facility and DC electrical distribution system. The integration of various technologies will cut energy requirements by half for data center of this size. ...

... "The project will feature an on-site electrical tri-generation system that will use an array of natural gas-fueled microturbines to generate all the necessary electricity for the center and provide cooling for the computer servers. The data center will be able to operate completely off-grid. IBM and SU will create a liquid cooling system that will use double-effect absorption chillers to convert the exhaust heat from the microturbines into chilled water to cool the data center's servers, with sufficient excess cooling to handle the needs of an adjacent building. Server racks will incorporate IBM's Rear Door Heat eXchanger cooling doors that use chilled water to remove heat from each rack far more efficiently than conventional room-chilling methods. " ...

Via IBM: Syracuse University Green Data Center

Microturbine case studies via Capstone Turbine.