Introduction

This book investigates the coordinated power management of multi-tenant data centers that account for a large portion of the data center industry. The authors include discussion of their quick growth and their electricity consumption, which has huge economic and environmental impacts.

Scope and Focus

This book covers the various coordinated management solutions in the existing literature focusing on efficiency, sustainability, and demand response aspects.

Background and Mechanisms

First, the authors provide a background on the multi-tenant data center covering the stakeholders, components, power infrastructure, and energy usage. Then, each power management mechanism is described in terms of motivation, problem formulation, challenges and solution.