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A team of individuals from IT and facilities including Nancy Pruskowski, Josh Hartranft, Srini Gotety, Kevin Semrau, and Greg Petruno, among others, worked together migrate the data center from an old location to a newly designed and constructed location within Boyer Building. The team made numerous improvements in how we manage the data center through the migration that has led to a significant reduction in the amount of energy needed to manage MU servers. As an example, the new data center has the servers facing each other in a cold aisle that is contained and separately air conditioned. This greatly reduces the amount of energy needed to cool the servers. The servers then exhaust their waste heat into the surrounding room. Previously the entire room that contained the servers needed to be cooled. Collectively the energy efficiency improvements have resulted in at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use in a critical service area for MU.
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