NSF Workshop on Sustainable Data Centers

数据中心是现代商业环境的核心，因为在过去十年中，计算已经迅速转移到云中。数据中心是美国增长最快的电力用户之一，2013年消耗的电力估计为910亿千瓦时，约占美国总电力消耗的2%。数据中心的有效运营对于提高能源效率和环境可持续性至关重要。由于基于云计算的积极采用，对数据中心的需求正在迅速增长，学术界和工业界都需要重新考虑如何设计，构建和运营数据中心以实现可持续发展。该奖项将支持组织一个研讨会，将行业从业者、学术研究人员和政府利益相关者聚集在一起，讨论未来5-10年可持续数据中心研究的愿景、挑战和机遇。研讨会的研究议程有可能对美国及其他地区产生广泛和变革性的影响，通过寻找新的方法来更好地利用国家计算基础设施中的能源和自然资源。此外，研讨会将邀请早期职业学者和来自不同背景和代表性不足的群体的学者，将他们与对数据中心可持续性感兴趣的广泛的学术和工业研究人员社区联系起来。

Data centers are the core of modern business environments as computation has been rapidly moving into the cloud in the last decade. Data centers are among the fastest growing users of electricity in the U.S. consuming an estimated 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2013, about 2% of the total electricity consumed by the US. It is essential that data centers be operated effectively to improve energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Due to aggressive adoption of cloud-based computing, the demands on data centers are growing rapidly, and both academia and industry will need to rethink how data centers are designed, built, and operated to be sustainable. This award will support the organization of a workshop to bring together industry practitioners, academic researchers, and government stakeholders to discuss the vision, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable data center research for the next 5-10 years. The research agenda of the workshop has the potential for broad and transformative impact on the US and beyond by finding new ways to make better use of energy and natural resources in the nation's computing infrastructure. Furthermore, the workshop will engage early career scholars and those from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups to connect them with a broad community of academic and industrial researchers interested in data center sustainability.