Arms made it clear that beijing would not deviate from its one party system. And at the top of the hour. That future needs storage space. Among the doubled every year and this date that needs to sit summers the digital age is powered by millions of servers stored in giant and largely unseen data centers and we need to map out how were going to make the digital revolution sustainable and contain its environmental impact. This facility belongs to the german based Software Giant s a p goods is the corporations head of Data Center Services this is the home of the cloud thousands of super Fast Computers that Exchange Data while we use our internet connected
devices to work shop watch t. V. Or play digital games. The cloud is the other end of the internet the machines behind our Computers Tablets and smartphones but gigantic invisible and energy consuming network. The physical manifestation of the a theory all internet. Yourself s. H. P. Has more than Twenty Thousand servers in this facility that need the electricity to calculate and run the applications because only because. Those energy needs are enormous data centers in germany alone use the equivalent of five large power plants about forty such facilities operate worldwide just to power the internet. If the World Wide Web work. Country it would rank sixth in the world for the amount
of energy it uses and carbon it emits. To come out as it would seeing here you can see how much energy a data center of this size to consume is right now in one of our two energy Power Supply Facilities the opposite is nearly thirty megawatts. Thats enough to power a small town or several small communities here in germany when i was from fossil. A lot of the energy is used to cool the computers which he does when theyre in use. The curtis think thats why the technology requires electricity and water and electricity powers the fans and the pumps and the water cools the Heat Exchangers i would like to hear what im seeing with waffles which were in on this idea about the chicago dont decide this is called out to you about a cooling off of the water evaporates and that lowers the temperature and. Its
a very efficient and economical process but if its really hot outside we have to switch over to a large Refrigeration System to keep the facility cool trying to move on. The heat thats generated by the servers is a serious problem. Highty experts and engineers around the world are trying to come up with solutions. Lots of people use the internet all day long frequently checking into Social Media Platforms like Facebook Twitter or youtube and all those billions of clicks use a lot of energy. These four young women in berlin are roommates ana Martina Martina and not tell yet use Digital Technology to organize their home. And thats why they call themselves Smart Roommates. Yes it has been mom the first thing we do when we
get up in the morning hes checking out emails and facebook and instagram and dissolves in secret noise to make it insanely guns guns cause the one time last month. With people all over the world. I liked the idea of having friends in other countries and this so i stay in touch with a good time times that. I mentioned i work in a Cloud Platform with a colleague we Exchange Data and work on documents together and its a little from the us because he often says my chinese ditched all maps a loss there really helpful in a big city like ben stiller things like. Bike sharing car sharing bike sharing. These women are among the Three Billion people around the world who regularly use the internet but few people realize that when they click on a website theyre locking into a Global Infrastructure that gobbles up massive amounts of energy. Data centers are often housed in in conspicuous Industrial Buildings like this one in frankfurt the Interaction Company operates twelve data centers here and its building more. This is also the home of the Worlds LargestInternet Exchange point called kicks. These rooms full of batteries are used to maintain an uninterrupted supply of power. And operate a high tech Fire Suppression system. That uses argon gas to reduce Oxygen Content in the affected area so any fire would burn out on its own. Interactions data centers have their own transformer substation. It converts high
voltage electric power that comes in from the grid into low voltage power that can be distributed throughout the facility. Substations are outfitted with Backup Systems to ensure consistency supply of electricity during emergencies like Power Outages or surges. The data centers in frankfurt consume twenty percent of all the electricity used in the city thats more than frankfurt Huge International airport. We were outside berlin near the small town of gone say. Ten months on top of us Author University professor and expert on Sustainable Digitise Zation lives here with his family
a few friends and some animals. On top of us studies the impact that Digital Technology has on the environment the economy and society in general. Some tough ios as a hobby farmer its definitely a low tech existence. But try as he might he cant completely avoid using Digital Technology. And he should also visit them on a smart phones also im trying to stay off my smartphone but the sheep are online and. Theyre outfitted with Radio Frequency Identification your tax money those tags use an Electromagnetic Field to keep track of the animals. On them of course the internet offers us a number of wonderful new opportunities to make and make our lives easier and more enjoyable its fantastic. But we pay a price for that because this technology consumes a huge amount of energy and our supply of electricity on this planet is limited and. The Data Technology sector is booming new data centers like this one it s a a Corporate Headquarters involved off in southwestern germany are being built all over the world. But no one in new technology has created a wide variety of applications sort of like the internet of things and block jane and we believe that this will require a substantial increase in datacenter capacity. Ill get up in thats why you see a p is building new data centers word Cloud Systems and were expanding some of the old ones like this one here. We did manage to double its capacity and i was i think its safe to assume that the time it takes to process data will increase sharply worldwide. I think so im accessing the tell me
a joke. But how does why is the trouble in the world quietest car. Theres so little space inside that your knees cover your ears its. A digital device that can tell jokes may seem unnecessary to some but more and more people are using these gadgets and not just at home. Experts predict that Fifty Billion of these devices will be in use by twenty twenty combination with the internet of things Online GamingVideo Streaming Sites and four k. T. V. We have to drive to the video store to render a biofilm. But today you can stream it while that uses up to one third less energy per film there has the same time been a dramatic rise in streaming video through the internet. Video already accounts for seventy percent of Internet Traffic on the net stuff. Today many Household Appliances have their own Internet Address and they can be controlled and monitored by smart home technology. Natalia one of the Smart Roommates describes how the system works. That is thats the kind of this is the central server for our apartment we use it to monitor devices in all the rooms. And i have different personal saying its great that i can monitor the Room Temperature and even the Carbon Dioxide levels. He said things that you know we have the same interface on our mobile phone so we can change the settings even when were not honus hospitals hi ann. World wide Data Transfer traffic doubles every eighteen months and the next big boom is already underway. Here at the annual high Tech Industrial trade fair in hanover a lot of people are excited about industry four point zero which is shorthand for
automation and Data Exchange in manufacturing technologies. Found him on his a Senior Researcher at the berlin based porter step institute. This one with the internets consumption of electricity is growing by leaps and bounds. Thats due in part to the huge amount of Data Transfer. Here at the trade fair you can see that all of the machines are outfitted with sensors that collect data continuously. Right now in germany our Energy Requirements for the internet and data centers at just under thirteen terawatt alice thats about as much energy as the city of berlin uses in an entire year. Or the amount of off shore energy thats produced in the boat called no sink. At soybeans these numbers will increase by as much as twenty five percent over the next five or six years. Of all. Visitors to the trade fair contest augmented or Virtual Reality technology and find out more about the latest developments in robotics. This technology will soon be available just about everywhere and it too will require a lot of energy. To trade on just once increasingly Larger Data Centers we call them hyper scale facility. There was a big a several Football Fields consume as much electricity is a town or small city. Corporations like google on facebook microsoft and apple are building their own data centers. Face microsoft there are about Three Hundred Fifty of such facilities right now around the world. And we expect that number to double over the next five years and yes. Many believe that Digital Technology will help reduce the consumption of fossil
fuels like petroleum and natural gas particularly when it comes to cars. New data streams designed to enhance Automotive Technology are already being developed. Smarter all today we have smart cars that use a lot of this technology. They generate about twenty five gigabytes of data. And there will be a huge increase in data tried service we develop Driverless Cars it could be as much as Two Hundred Fifty gigabytes per hour. If you printed out that amount of data youd have one hundred tons of paper and youd need four big trucks to move it around just for the amount of data generated in one alan i know still not gotten it for the. I know thats. The development of Driverless Cars may help to reduce the number of vehicles on the
road particularly of people use Car Sharing Programs or a Robot Tax Subsidy or. Sharing ordered so fewer people will actually have to own a car and because its higher. I dont see it then i dont think that would be a positive development because the industry of Automobile Production uses a lot of resources is it so savings there would be a good thing. On the other hand Driverless Cars will require an enormous Data Infrastructure because those vehicles are constantly scanning their surroundings. And fit into a data streams for the lasers sensors Radar Technology and the. Thirty vices in addition these vehicles will require a constant flow of three d. Map data. Deem as for example a robot taxi could generate up to four terabytes of data over twenty four hours. Is too few it tells and it means that over
a period of thirty six hours it would be producing as much data as the entire number of people on line around the world today full from the all to exam to the. This is the nord fjord on norways southwest coast the fjord is more than one hundred kilometers long. The natural landscape here is breathtaking. This area is also home to the left all Mine Data Center. The facility was built on the site of a former mine and it could serve as a model for more efficient and sustainable storage of huge computer systems. A shipment of High Performance computers has just arrived at the data center. There in this big container. The computers are prewired and ready to be hooked up to
the internet. The computers are transported deep into the data center complex. Where we have three containers arriving almost every week and then in two years from now this level three will be completed with forty five megawatts here three facility over the next period up to ten the earth will fill the entire data center and this small. Mots on the song has the Marketing Director of what set to become one of europes biggest data centers. The facility has a total potential Storage Capacity of more than one hundred Twenty Thousand square meters the equivalent of sixteen soccer fields. Spread out over six up terrain in
levels. The size is protected by a State Of The Art security system. And paved road ways provide access to the Storage Chambers throughout the site. The containers are placed on huge steel shelves. So. Can the two hundred megawatts now that is enough to take care of the entire north the region needs for Data Center Capacity that is quite a lot. Two hundred megawatts is. Twenty times a Large Data Center today. That would easily suffice to meet the Energy Requirements of a modern urban center. And theres plenty of room for the data center to expand its modular storage concept. The facility is powered exclusively by
locally produced Renewable Energy and its Cooling System makes it extremely Energy Efficient. The key element in the Cooling System is water from the nearby fjord. Since the data center is located below sea level theres no need to use expensive pumps to lift the water to the Heat Exchangers. Here it left on Mine Data Center we use the fjord on the outside with the Cold Seawater that they bring into the data center to Heat Exchangers and those Heat Exchangers interact with the coast Fresh Water Circuit that goes out through the datacenter and through the signet that i. T. Areas are to cold pipes coming in with cold water and there are two hoped pipes
going out with hot water and here we can see the the pipes going into the Container Racks and being distributed out to different containers. With the construction of this Data Center Norway has taken a major step forward into a sustainable Digital Future the country already enjoys a surplus of Renewable Energy and the government sees data centers like left all as an important part of its new Economic Development strategy so they dissenters are about power and large amounts of power are being transformed into bits and bytes transported through a Network Cables roll that up power cables norway has a country has a renewable Coal Production ninety eight percent of the power is idle hydro power or wind color this is unique in the global perspective. The left all facili