Follow @GreenICTWho Offers ENERGY STAR Servers?
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 19:00
Fifteen manufacturers offer ENERGY STAR® qualified servers. Cisco and Huawei (China) are the latest. Hitachi and Wipro appear to no longer offer qualified models.
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Enterprise Servers
Acer/Gateway ASUSTek Bull Dell Fujitsu Hewlett-Packard Huawei IBM Lenovo NEC Oracle/Sun Quanta |
Small Scale Servers
Acer Apple Cisco Fujitsu Hewlett-Packard LG Electronics |
The information about "Enterprise Servers" are distributed across two spreadsheets on the ENERGY STAR site. "Small Scale Servers" are listed in a third spreadsheet. Users looking to purchase green PCs and monitors should reference EPEAT. EPEAT qualified products comply with a wide range of green criteria in addition to ENERGY STAR. You can access information about EPEAT Gold products through the top three "Greenest E-Gear" links on the right. Some have evaluated ENERGY STAR - Computer Servers 1.0 a "good first step" but conclude the requirements "have enough shortcomings that they are unsuitable to be primary criteria for the purchase of new hardware equipment." Version 2.0 is in progress, but without a target completion date. |
EPA's case study "Energy Savings From ENERGY STAR-Qualified Servers" concludes:
Our findings imply that..the energy savings from a single ENERGY STAR-qualified server could range from $60 (at 50% utilization) to $120 (at idle) annually, or $240-$480 over the useful life of a server (4 years).
...ENERGY STAR-qualified servers substantially reduce cooling loads in data centers. A general rule of thumb suggests that one watt saved by a server has the added benefit of saving one to two watts of cooling power. This yields a total savings of between $480 and $1,440 over the useful lifetime of a server.
...these power savings come with a substantial increase in performance—at 50% utilization, for example, the newer, more energy-efficient server handles over three times the workload, thereby reducing the number of systems needed to support the same load.
Our data suggests that a single ENERGY STAR-qualified server saves enough electricity to avert nearly 1/2 to 1 ton of carbon dioxide emissions, based on the assumptions stated above. Accounting for cooling savings makes it a total of 1 to 3 tons of carbon dioxide abated.
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