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Brian T. Soucy, P.E.
- Jun 28, 2018
- 3 min
A Real-World Data Center Power Trend
Over the last three years we have been trending one client’s data center power consumption from weekly power readings taken by their operations staff. We use the trends to predict failover scenarios, identify capacity constraints and plan infrastructure upgrades. We also use the readings to observe the overall data center power consumption. Over the past three years the data center saw a steady decline in overall data center power consumption. July of 2015, the total data