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Information Technology is a dominant player of our modern societies; Data Centres, lying at the heart of the IT landscape, have attracted attention, with their increasing energy consumption being a constant topic of concern, especially when it comes to the negative impact on the quality of their surrounding environment. Nevertheless, recent technological and societal advances are paving the way for DCs to change their role from passive energy consumers into prosumers, thus, transforming themselves into leading players within their smart district surroundings. This paper describes the innovative GEYSER approach to enabling green networked DCs to monitor, control, reuse, and optimize both their energy consumption and production, and in particular from renewable resources, towards becoming active participants within Smart Grids and Smart Cities.
GEYSER is co-funded by the European Commission as part of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013). The authors wish to acknowledge the Commission for its support, the efforts of the partners, and the contributions of all experts involved in GEYSER. The GEYSER consortium is: Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica Spa (IT), ASM Terni Spa (IT), Green IT Amsterdam (NL), SURFSARA BV (NL), ABB Limited (IE), Zurcher Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften (CH), SingularLogic (GR), Wattics Limited (IE), Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische HochSchule Aachen (DE), Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca (RO).
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Anghel, I. et al. (2015). GEYSER: Enabling Green Data Centres in Smart Cities. In: Klingert, S., Chinnici, M., Rey Porto, M. (eds) Energy Efficient Data Centers. E2DC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8945. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15786-3_5
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