Feb. 2, 2015: Yahoo Wins Data Center Energy Efficiency Award with Cooling Optimization
Project Delivered 44 Percent Cooling Energy Savings
TINLEY PARK, Ill. — Yahoo was named as winner of the 2014 DataCenter Dynamics North American Award, “Improved Data Center Energy Efficiency,” for its joint data center project with SynapSense®, a Panduit company, that is saving 7.5 million kilowatt hours of energy annually. The award is sponsored by The Green Grid and recognizes Yahoo’s commitment to drive greater energy efficiency in data center operations through the process of measurement, benchmarking, analysis, recommendation, and implementation.
As measurement is key to managing energy efficiency, the focus of this project relied on capturing granular cooling metrics. SynapSense and Yahoo worked together to reduce cooling costs by deploying the SynapSense Wireless Environmental Monitoring Solution, improving airflow management, leveraging air economizers, and deploying SynapSense Active Control to dynamically match cooling requirements to changes in the IT load. Their joint retrofit project at the Yahoo data centers in Quincy, Washington, saved nearly double the original target announced in March 2014.