Hyper Efficient Data Centers

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Sustainability That Pays for Itself

Concept:

Energetic LLC provides a portfolio of services related to infrastructure resilience and sustainability. Learn more about this service area that directly applies towards your sustainability goals by creating a large reduction in Data Center electricity and water use.

Why our approach is different:

  1. 40%+ reduction in data center electrical consumption: Elimination of air conditioning requirements for data center design by use of biomimicry and additional efficiency measures. Hot air naturally rises and taking advantage of that in an ingenious building design allows the heat to be exhausted out through the roof instead of requiring expensive commercial air conditioning units. 

  2. Built for Operations efficiencies: Designed for optimizing datacenter operations and maintenance. 

  3. 90% reduction in water use: The elimination of commercial air conditioning also reduces the data center water consumption by 90%.

  4. SCIF use: Internal pods can be segregated physically for SCIF configuration.

  5. Proven: This successful design has been in operation since 2014 at the Oregon Health & Science University.

ServerDomes:

ServerDomes delivers datacenters that operate on as little as 55% of the electricity, and 10% of the water that a standard datacenter design requires, with almost zero building maintenance requirements. Its aircraft grade aluminum exterior, combined with these lower operating costs position ServerDomes for long competitive service life in a growing market that is becoming more price sensitive. ServerDomes is the future of data centers with a no-compromise approach to design, build, and operations. It represents a radically different concept for designing data center containment and infrastructure that offers best-in-class power and water efficiency, agility, adaptability, scalability, and significantly reduced maintenance costs. Using biomimicry as a design principle, ServerDomes has eliminated the need for costly raised anti-static floors, chillers, water towers, CRAC or CRAH units, ductwork, exhaust fans, heaters, and humidifiers or dehumidifiers.

An Optimal Design Based on Biomimicry

It has been proven again and again that it is difficult to improve on the efficiencies and elegance of nature’s designs. In fact, ServerDomes’ inventor looked to nature and leveraged biomimicry whenever possible to develop a data ecosystem with a fully integrated design. This approach accommodates all current data center needs while simultaneously addressing future drivers that include agility, scalability, adaptability, efficiency, and sustainability.  Biomimicry helps us move beyond current understandings of sustainability which typically focus on mitigating negatives. Instead, the inventor sought solutions that are restorative, visionary, and deliver positive impacts. Utilizing nature’s best biological models to solve human problems, ServerDome emulates natural forms, processes, and ecosystems to create a more sustainable, efficient, and healthier technology.

For example, the ServerDomes design is based upon laws of nature where symmetries are at the core of modern physics from general relativity to quantum field theory. Known as Noether’s theorem, each symmetry of a physical system gives rise to a conserved quantity. Symmetry denotes qualities based upon a correspondence or agreement among the parts of a whole and implies either quantitative equality of parts or a unified system of subordinate parts. The ServerDome manifests symmetry internally and externally forming the foundation of its advantages.

The ServerDomes’ high-power density and ability to disperse the associated heat load within a small footprint utilizes a mechanism similar to the circulatory convection cell that allows termite mounds to maintain steady temperatures in extreme climates.

The geodesic dome was inspired by the simplicity and structural uniformity of things like snowflakes, seed pods, flowers and crystals. The Dome emulates those simple, strong, and noticeably spherical arrangements to produce an incredibly effective canopy. The dome is a manifestation of the phrase “less is more.” A minimal amount of building materials is geometrically arranged to ensure a design both strong and lightweight.

Even the internal components, such as the modular, scalable interconnected equipment pods, mimic the nature of the Mangrove plant and forest with massively interconnected root systems that power the interaction of separate ecosystems.  

[1] https://journal.uptimeinstitute.com/data-center-pues-flat-since-2013/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00101-w

[3] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/07/12/heres-how-much-water-all-us-data-centers-consume

[4] https://journal.uptimeinstitute.com/rack-density-is-rising/