Post by account_disabled on Mar 5, 2024 7:28:48 GMT
Another source of waste in data centers involves power distribution, and a symptom of this problem is the extent of stranded power. Most IT departments configure racks based on the nameplate power ratings of servers or a percentage based derating, and even if a rack has available slots, it is considered “full” when the total rated maximum power consumption of the servers matches the power distributed to the rack. But because nameplate ratings are notoriously conservative, this approach results in available power (and space) being underutilized.
Optimization minimizes the energy being wasted by the inefficiencies inherent to any power distribution system, and can also reclaim stranded power and space to facilitate additional capacity in the data center. Because the UL 2640 standard also measures actual server power consumption under peak application load, it can be used to minimize or eliminate stranded power by more fully populating racks. Power Assure estimates that most data centers should be able to increase overall transactional capacity by 40-50 percent by taking this step.
The report investigates allegations made last month B2B Email List that two of APP’s suppliers were clearing natural forest in West Kalimantan Province on the island of Borneo and comes a day after analysis published by WWF and other environmental groups accuses APP of causing the deforestation of more than 1.4 million hectares in Sumatra, Indonesia.
In February, the controversial paper giant pledged to immediately stop clearing natural forest across its entire supply chain in Indonesia.
Last month, however, APP received a complaint from a consortium of local NGOs that two of its suppliers, PT Daya Tani Kalbar and PT Asia Tani Persada were clearing natural forest in West Kalimantan Province. APP and The Forest Trust, a nonprofit group that worked with APP on its Forest Conservation Policy, said it would look into the charges and publish the findings.
Today’s report says the investigation did find evidence of clearing natural forest — but not related to APP. It blames the deforestation on “concession lap,” where an area of forest concession serves two or more companies, and concludes the allegations made that APP suppliers were in breach of the company’s Forest Conservation Policy are unfounded.
Aida Greenbury, APP’s managing director of sustainability, says the report shows the company’s commitment to transparency and its deforestation moratorium, “despite unsubstantiated commentary by some parties” — a likely reference to WFF’s latest accusations.
Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of WWF, Forest Rescue Network Riau and Friends of the Earth Indonesia, published the April 3 report, which found APP’s forest conservation policy protects — at most — 5,000 hectares of natural forest. It says APP’s suppliers’ concessions lost 683,281 hectares of natural forest between 1985 and 2012 and its new policy “has come too late for the tropical ecosystems damaged in the suppliers’ concessions in Sumatra.”
In April 2012, Danone, Xerox and a host of other companies pledged to suspend purchases from APP following a Greenpeace exposé on the paper company’s practices. Six months later, Disney dropped the paper company from its list of suppliers.
Optimization minimizes the energy being wasted by the inefficiencies inherent to any power distribution system, and can also reclaim stranded power and space to facilitate additional capacity in the data center. Because the UL 2640 standard also measures actual server power consumption under peak application load, it can be used to minimize or eliminate stranded power by more fully populating racks. Power Assure estimates that most data centers should be able to increase overall transactional capacity by 40-50 percent by taking this step.
The report investigates allegations made last month B2B Email List that two of APP’s suppliers were clearing natural forest in West Kalimantan Province on the island of Borneo and comes a day after analysis published by WWF and other environmental groups accuses APP of causing the deforestation of more than 1.4 million hectares in Sumatra, Indonesia.
In February, the controversial paper giant pledged to immediately stop clearing natural forest across its entire supply chain in Indonesia.
Last month, however, APP received a complaint from a consortium of local NGOs that two of its suppliers, PT Daya Tani Kalbar and PT Asia Tani Persada were clearing natural forest in West Kalimantan Province. APP and The Forest Trust, a nonprofit group that worked with APP on its Forest Conservation Policy, said it would look into the charges and publish the findings.
Today’s report says the investigation did find evidence of clearing natural forest — but not related to APP. It blames the deforestation on “concession lap,” where an area of forest concession serves two or more companies, and concludes the allegations made that APP suppliers were in breach of the company’s Forest Conservation Policy are unfounded.
Aida Greenbury, APP’s managing director of sustainability, says the report shows the company’s commitment to transparency and its deforestation moratorium, “despite unsubstantiated commentary by some parties” — a likely reference to WFF’s latest accusations.
Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of WWF, Forest Rescue Network Riau and Friends of the Earth Indonesia, published the April 3 report, which found APP’s forest conservation policy protects — at most — 5,000 hectares of natural forest. It says APP’s suppliers’ concessions lost 683,281 hectares of natural forest between 1985 and 2012 and its new policy “has come too late for the tropical ecosystems damaged in the suppliers’ concessions in Sumatra.”
In April 2012, Danone, Xerox and a host of other companies pledged to suspend purchases from APP following a Greenpeace exposé on the paper company’s practices. Six months later, Disney dropped the paper company from its list of suppliers.