European Data Centre Summit 2011

On April 24, 2011, we hosted leaders of the global data center industry in Zurich, Switzerland to share and discuss the latest in data center energy efficiency best practices. We saw case studies from Amazon, Norman Disney and Young, and Telecity Group. We heard about local cooling solutions and geo-independent approaches to efficiency from DeepGreen, IBM, Plusserver, Verne Global, and others. And we held two panel sessions to further discuss best practices and free cooling.

For those who could not attend in person, we recorded videos from each session (presented below in order of proceedings), and created a summary video of the event:

Google Data Center Efficiency Summit 2011 - Highlights Introduction - Urs Hoelzle Zahl Limbuwala - BCS Harkeeret Singh - The Green Grid Joe Kava - Google (1) Mark Eichenberger - UBS Dean Nelson - eBay Panel discussion - Best practices Joe Kava - Google (2) Dileep Bhandarkar - Microsoft Jochen Berger - PlusServer Chris Malone - Google Panel discussion - Local cooling solutions Closing remarks - Urs Hoelzle