Google invests $1 million in energy efficient data centre research

Google has awarded $1 million to a two-year research project aimed at radically reducing the amount of energy used by large Internet data centres.

The project, which could receive an additional $500,000 for a third year, will be carries out by a team of computer scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), Rutgers University, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia.

The team are part of UCSB’s Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing.

The award is part of a $5.7 million investment by Google into 12 university-based research projects and is the largest for computing efficiency.