Data center energy control

A device containing one or more tangible, non-transitory machine-readable storage media that store instructions that, when executed by one or more computer processors, perform operations comprising:

• identifying, for a computer data center, an expected need for cooling and electrical power during a future time;
• selecting, from among multiple different electrical power sources that include one or more electric utility sources, one or more electrical power sources for the data center corresponding to the future time;
• selecting one or more cooling sources for the data center corresponding to the future time;
• and
• serving the data center to be served using the selected one or more electrical power sources and one or more selected cooling sources over a time corresponding to the future time,
• wherein selecting the one or more electrical power sources and one or more cooling sources comprises applying a parameter to minimize an unfavorable result associated with operating the computer data center.