This paper explores the dynamics of energy reduction policy setting for data centers in the face of new metrics and related regulation. With these new metrics there is a potential for management to establish policies that achieve the specific metric target while sub-optimizing the total energy reduction opportunity. This paper will address the question of whether new insight can be gained by using a system dynamics approach versus static return on investment forecasting. The first part of this paper will describe the unique dynamics of energy consumption in a data center and the application of one particular metric used to indicate energy consumption efficiency. The second part of this paper proposes a model that represents the interconnected behavior of data center energy consumption and metric based policy implementation. This approach is compared to static methods and the insights gained from taking a systems approach.

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• 2011 July 24-2011 July 28

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