Did you know New Research Offers Groundbreaking Way to Slash Data Center Energy Use and Boost Efficiency

 

According to the researchers from University of Waterloo, there is a way to reduce energy consumption of some data centers even to 30%. We all know that data centers need a lot of energy but it has a lot of harmful effects too. 5% of the world’s total energy is used for computing every day and more computing power is expected to be needed in the near future because of the rise of artificial intelligence. Many of the data centers use open source operating systems kike Linux and they are needed for almost all web traffic.

One of the researchers named Martin Karsten said that most of the information comes at data centers in form of packets and the frontend decides where to send the information. The researchers found out that most data centers are not processing network traffic efficiently and there's some change needed which can save some of the energy used. The researchers suggested some rearrangements that needed to be done inside the data center’s CPU caches to improve the network traffic processing. There is a 30-lined code which reduces energy consumption of data centers by up to 30% and now that code has been included in Linux’s latest kernel version 6.13. If companies like Meta, Amazon and Google adopt the code, it can save about gigawatt hours of energy.