JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive Control

With the development of the Internet, the demand for data centers is growing dramatically. The cost of running a data center mainly comes from the huge electricity bill. Actually, IT (Information Technology) equipment and the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system of the data cente...

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Main Authors: Xun Chen, Guizhao Xu, Xiaolei Chang, Zhenzhou Wu, Zhengjian Chen, Chenxi Li
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
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author Xun Chen
Guizhao Xu
Xiaolei Chang
Zhenzhou Wu
Zhengjian Chen
Chenxi Li
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Guizhao Xu
Xiaolei Chang
Zhenzhou Wu
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Chenxi Li
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description With the development of the Internet, the demand for data centers is growing dramatically. The cost of running a data center mainly comes from the huge electricity bill. Actually, IT (Information Technology) equipment and the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system of the data center consume the majority of electricity. The existing energy–saving researches usually consider IT equipment or the HVAC system separately. But the energy consumption of HVAC is partially correlated with the running status of IT equipment. Taking methods to optimize the energy consumption of them jointly will generate more benefits. Therefore, we proposed JESO (Joint Energy Saving Optimization), a MPC (Model Predictive Control)-based method, to realize the joint energy-saving optimization of IT equipment and the HVAC system. We conducted extensive experiments based on generated transmission data and the HVAC system data from two real data centers. The experimental results demonstrated substantial energy reductions, achieving up to 51.67% in Fat-Tree and 45.03% in BCube network topologies. JESO outperforms separate optimizations of IT and HVAC systems, providing an additional energy reduction of 5.03% and 4.03% in these topologies, respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-78fb82da0dec407db8c6fba3d207bace2025-08-20T01:58:00ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011218803218804510.1109/ACCESS.2024.348883510740286JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive ControlXun Chen0https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9720-5625Guizhao Xu1Xiaolei Chang2https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2740-6252Zhenzhou Wu3https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2721-0183Zhengjian Chen4https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6897-9919Chenxi Li5https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3459-104XShenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, ChinaShenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaTsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaResearch Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, ChinaShenzhen Energy Group Company Ltd., Shenzhen, ChinaResearch Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, ChinaWith the development of the Internet, the demand for data centers is growing dramatically. The cost of running a data center mainly comes from the huge electricity bill. Actually, IT (Information Technology) equipment and the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system of the data center consume the majority of electricity. The existing energy–saving researches usually consider IT equipment or the HVAC system separately. But the energy consumption of HVAC is partially correlated with the running status of IT equipment. Taking methods to optimize the energy consumption of them jointly will generate more benefits. Therefore, we proposed JESO (Joint Energy Saving Optimization), a MPC (Model Predictive Control)-based method, to realize the joint energy-saving optimization of IT equipment and the HVAC system. We conducted extensive experiments based on generated transmission data and the HVAC system data from two real data centers. The experimental results demonstrated substantial energy reductions, achieving up to 51.67% in Fat-Tree and 45.03% in BCube network topologies. JESO outperforms separate optimizations of IT and HVAC systems, providing an additional energy reduction of 5.03% and 4.03% in these topologies, respectively.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10740286/Data centerenergyIT equipmentHVAC
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energy
IT equipment
HVAC
title JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive Control
title_full JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive Control
title_fullStr JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive Control
title_full_unstemmed JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive Control
title_short JESO: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption Based on Model Predictive Control
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energy
IT equipment
HVAC
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10740286/
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