Case study –
Infosys Data
Center
Aspiration, Learning and collaboration
1st Indian corporate to receive the UN Global Climate
Action Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category at
COP25 n December 2019 for our carbon neutral
program.
In our journey to towards a carbon-neutral future,
Infosys- ANNUAL PER CAPITA SCOPE 1 AND 2 EMISSIONS
(tCO2e) 70.07% reduction between fiscals 2008 and
Being An 2020.
Environmen With all our efforts, we could limit the increase in
electricity consumption to 20%, while our employee
tal steward strength has grown by 166%,as compared with the
baseline year of 2008.
44.3% of total electricity procured for India operations
from renewable resources
Helped us in collaborating with industry experts
Supported us during the setbacks and helped us in
IGBC & finding solutions
LBNL Motivate us to write the case study on our aspiration
Partners in our and learning path
achievements
Supporting and motivating us to achieve our
sustainability goals.
Design with a PUE of 1.12
High server room temperature design @ 27 deg C
Warm water design @ 23 deg C
Passive rear door heat exchanger (RDHx) design to bring CHW near
Project to the load
Building management system for monitoring, optimization and
Overview reliability. Rack level monitoring of temperature and Power
utilization.
Tier 3 design for reliability
Small Capacity of 300 KW but with an ambitious
target to achieve PUE of 1.12
Design to use the free ‘evaporative’ cooling available
in moderate climate of Bangalore
Design to minimize the compressor-based cooling
because of water temperature requirement of 23 deg
Project C.
3 mode of operation:
Design 1. Mode 1 – Cooling tower based(Free cooling) (PUE-
1.12)
2. Mode 2 – Water cooled Chiller (PUE- 1.18)
3. Mode 3 – Air cooled chiller based.(PUE – 1.4)
High Equipment efficiency complying to ECBC Level 3
of Data center on individual basis.
Air mixing issues due to mix IT asset configuration and back
pressure of Passive RDHx.
Higher approach than design and hence lower Water
temperature requirement of 19 deg C.
Operational Due to low temperature requirement, free cooling can not
Challenges be utilized properly.
Water cooled chiller is associated with other campus
buildings for comfort cooling and running intermittently only
in morning office time.
Due to challenges in Mode 1 and Mode 2 of operation,
maximum operation shifted to Mode 3 i.e air cooled chiller.
Using the robust BMS system, granular data is analyzed
and the racks causing the maximum air mixing is being
identified.
Customized blanking panels as per IT asset design to
Solutions reduce air mixing (suggestion given by Mr. Lohia).
under Testing of Active RDHx system is going on to reduce the
mixing of hot and cold air.
implementati Retrofit and conversion of an adjoining data center to ‘high
on temperature’ chilled water of 15 deg C to increase the
continuous load on water cooled chiller.
Water cooled
chiller PUE vs
Existing PUE
50% reduction in
infrastructure
energy can be
achieved by shifting
from Air cooled
chiller to water
cooled chiller.
Project and Operation has
their own set of challenges.
Co-ordination between
multiple stakeholders/teams
reduces the challenges.
Out of box approach can
solve the problem in a
creative way.
Learning 3 equal partners for Energy
efficiency in Data centers
are:
1. The Design and project
team
2. The Infrastructure
operation team
3. The IT team
Dedicated team of all three stakeholders i.e IT
team, Infrastructure operation and Project team has
been formed to look at the opportunities in
improving the Efficiency of Data center.
Reduces the time required for execution
Collaborati Also reduces the futuristic operational challenges.
on Constant feedback of all the team is getting
analyzed regularly for carrying out the best
execution plan.
Agile model of execution rather than windfall model
of execution.
Aspire to achieve higher
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