In the article "Alliance for a Sustainable Future Hosts Truly Green St. Patrick's Day at GW," GW Today details GW's St. Patrick’s Day Sustainability Celebration: Universities and Communities Creating a Greener Future, hosted by the GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future (ASF) with Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The daylong event featured sustainability tours, workshops, and panel discussions with experts like GW Engineering's Payman Dehghanian and Howie Huang, who discussed data centers' high energy needs and how they're working to reduce it.
Here is an excerpt from the article: "To deal with the industry’s challenges, researchers at GW are working on solutions and decision support tools that data centers can use to align their operations with renewable energy, said Howie Huang, professor of computer and electrical engineering at GW Engineering. “We should approach this problem in a systematic way,” Huang said. He and Dehghanian use a “nested approach,” looking at energy-consuming interactions within servers, between servers and other equipment in the building, between the building and the grid and in the grid itself to identify opportunities for increased efficiency."
Read the full article in GW Today.