Model Predictive Control for Energy Efficient Data Center

Funding agency

Tencent Young Faculty Open Research Fund, 2023-2024

Project introduction

Data center accounts for 3% of total electricity consumption (i.e. 350 TWh per year) in China, among which 30-40% are for data center cooling. Enhancing the energy efficiency of data center cooling system has significant energy saving and carbon emission reduction potential. In this project, we will develop and deploy Model Predictive Control for data center cooling system.

We published a whitepaper on Data structure for HVAC operation data of data center