PLC Group Inc.

$90,259.00 CAD

≈ 14 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2020-2021
Agreement period
July 13, 2020 – March 31, 2021
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2020-2021-Q2-954179

Published purpose

Ever increasing data growth due to the changing market dynamics (work from home due to COVID-19, 5G and IoT connections etc.) is significantly impacting the energy utilization and its resulting costs for medium data centers (>2000 racks and <10000 racks) as well as for large data centers (>10000 racks). Cooling energy consumption is currently the second largest cost driver for such data centers. Our solution will provide an AI & Machine Learning based solution, that will continuously sync up all the cooling equipment (including CRAC units, HVACs, Chillers etc.) at the data centers to optimize the air flow and the equipment utilization thus resulting in ~25%+ cooling energy cost reduction.

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