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Dynamic Provisioning In Next-Generation Data Centers With On-Site Power Production, Jinlong Tu, Lian Lu, Minghua Chen, Ramesh Sitaraman

Ramesh Sitaraman

The critical need for clean and economical sources of energy is transforming data centers that are primarily energy consumers to also energy producers. We focus on minimizing the operating costs of next-generation data centers that can jointly optimize the energy supply from on-site generators and the power grid, and the energy demand from servers as well as power conditioning and cooling systems. We formulate the cost minimization problem and present an offline optimal algorithm. For “on-grid” data centers that use only the grid, we devise a deterministic online algorithm that achieves the best possible competitive ratio of 2−αs, where αs …