Building an Energy Efficient Datacenter?

asc4 asks: "The company I work for is a webhosting and colocation company. As our power utilization grows, we have begun searching for ways to make our datacenter more efficient. The biggest hit from the utility company comes in the peak usage charge, which penalizes (rather severely) for the highest sustained burst of usage during a billing period. Due to the nature of the colocation business, we can't control how much or when client devices use power, so I'm wondering: is there's something we can do at the datacenter level to help smooth out our power consumption, over the course of a given period of time?" "In these days of hybrid cars, Energy Star devices, and in general more eco-friendly power consumption, it seems like there must be some products out there that can help make datacenters more efficient, as well. Could fuel cell technology be something to look into? Would flywheels or capacitors help? How about using more efficient AC units than what are available from the big names? What are others doing to reduce peak power consumption in high-drain datacenter environments?"

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