Distributing power between data centers
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorIzuru Narita
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Abstract
A data center operable using only electric power based on renewable energy. The data center includes at least one device driven by the electric power, a storage battery for storing the electric power, and a controller for switching the operating mode of the device over the course of time on the basis of predicted values for the amount of electric power generated using renewable energy, the amount of electric power stored in the storage battery, and the amount of electric power consumed by the device.
Claims9
A method for distributing a load between data centers, each data center being communicably connected, operable using electric power based only on renewable energy, and including at least one server driven by the electric power, and a storage battery for storing the electric power, wherein at least one of the at least one server of driven by the electric power is a server for executing the method, the method comprising steps of:
- receiving a predicted value for an amount of the electric power stored in the storage battery at the each data center;
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- assigning servers to execute jobs to be processed by the at least one server driven by the electric power in response to the predicted value for the amount of stored electric power.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.