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Source Aware Data Center Power Profiles

  • US 20110251966A1
  • Filed: 04/12/2010
  • Published: 10/13/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method providing data center services in accordance with an environmental requirement, comprising:

  • identifying, by a processor of a data center, a plurality of power requirements for running a plurality of resources at the data center;

    identifying a plurality of potential vendors, each of the plurality of vendors capable of supplying at least a portion of the plurality of power requirements;

    contacting each of the plurality of potential vendors;

    informing each of the plurality of potential vendors that in order to qualify as a vendor with the data center, the potential vendor must provide a carbon value along with their cost per unit of energy, the carbon value being a numeral representing a quantity of carbon produced to generate a unit of energy;

    determining whether each of the plurality of potential vendors has provided a carbon value; and

    responsive to determining that a potential vendor has provided a carbon value, entering, by the processor, the carbon value for the potential vendor into a rate file for the potential vendor.

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