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CoolEmAll: Models and Tools for Planning and Operating Energy Efficient Data Centres

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The need to improve how efficiently data centre operate is increasing due to the continued high demand for new data centre capacity combined with other factors such as the increased competition for energy resources. The financial crisis may have dampened data centre demand temporarily, but current projections indicate strong growth ahead. By 2020, it is estimated that annual investment in the construction of new data centres will rise to $ 50bn in the US, and $ 220bn worldwide [23].

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The results presented in this chapter were funded by the European Commission under contract 288701 through the project CoolEmAll.

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  1. christmann informationstechnik + medien GmbH & Co. KG, Ilseder Huette 10c, 31241, Ilsede, Germany

    Micha vor dem Berge

  2. High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), University of Stuttgart, Nobelstr. 19, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Jochen Buchholz, Georgina Gallizo, Daniel Rathgeb, Eugen Volk & Uwe Wössner

  3. Institute for Research in Informatics of Toulouse (IRIT), Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

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  6. Atos Spain, S.A. (ATOS), Albarracín, 25, 28037, Madrid, Spain

    Lara Lopez & Enric Pages

  7. Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Jardins de les dones de negre, 1, 2 floor (08930) Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaume Salom & Laura Sisó

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vor dem Berge, M. et al. (2015). CoolEmAll: Models and Tools for Planning and Operating Energy Efficient Data Centres. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Handbook on Data Centers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2092-1_6

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