PDF Publication Title:
Text from PDF Page: 025
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector Although there are no national efficiency requirements for data centers, the federal government has taken steps to improve the efficiency of its own data centers. In 2010, the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (DCCI) was established. The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA, P.L. 113-291) was enacted on December 19, 2014, to establish a long-term framework through which federal IT investments could be tracked, assessed, and managed, to significantly reduce wasteful spending and improve project outcomes.123 The DCCI was superseded by the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) in 2016.124 The DCCI established and the DCOI maintains requirements for agencies to develop and report on strategies “to consolidate inefficient infrastructure, optimize existing facilities, improve security posture, achieve cost savings, and transition to more efficient infrastructure.”125 The DCOI also included energy efficiency goals for data centers: 1. Existing tiered data centers to achieve and maintain a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of less than 1.5 by September 30, 2018, and 2. New data centers must be designed and maintain a PUE no greater than 1.4, and are encouraged to achieve a PUE no greater than 1.2.126 For the PUE metric, the DCOI references Executive Order (E.O.) 13693 and the implementation instructions.127 E.O. 13693 was revoked by and replaced with E.O. 13834, which does not discuss data centers.128 The implementation instructions for E.O. 13834 state that “data centers are energy intensive operations that contribute to agency energy and water use and costs,” and encourage agencies “to implement practices that promote energy efficient management of servers and Federal data centers,” and “to install sub-meters, including advanced energy meters, in data centers where cost effective and beneficial for tracking energy performance and improving energy management.”129 The authorization of the DCOI was extended until October 1, 2020, by the FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-88). Congress may choose to consider whether federal data center PUE requirements should be extended to certain types of data centers outside https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-now-globally-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy/; Brad Smith, “New Solar Deal Moves Us Ahead of Schedule in Creating a Cleaner Cloud,” Microsoft On the Issues, March 21, 2018, https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/03/21/new-solar-deal-moves-us-ahead-of-schedule-in- creating-a-cleaner-cloud/. 123 Title VIII, Subtitle D of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2015, P.L. 113-291. 124 U.S. Office of Management and Budget, “Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies: Data Center Optimization Initiative,” August 1, 2016, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/ memoranda/2016/m_16_19_1.pdf. 125 Ibid., p. 2. For more on the data center optimization initiative, see CRS Report R44843, The Current State of Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform and Management, by Patricia Moloney Figliola. 126 Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is the proportion of total data center energy used (in the numerator) by the total IT equipment energy used (in the denominator). For example, a data center with PUE of 1 would use no electricity other than the IT equipment. A data center with PUE greater than 1 would use energy for cooling and for the IT equipment. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, “Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies: Data Center Optimization Initiative,” August 1, 2016, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/ memoranda/2016/m_16_19_1.pdf, p. 6-7. 127 Executive Order 13693, “Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade,” 80 Federal Register 15869- 15884, March 25, 2015. 128 Executive Order 13834, “Efficient Federal Operations,” 83 Federal Register 23771-23774, May 22, 2018. 129 Council of Environmental Quality, “Implementing Instructions for Executive Order 13834: Efficient Federal Operations,” p. 35, https://www.sustainability.gov/pdfs/eo13834_instructions.pdf. Congressional Research Service 22PDF Image | Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector 2019
PDF Search Title:
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector 2019Original File Name Searched:
R45863.pdfDIY PDF Search: Google It | Yahoo | Bing
NFT (Non Fungible Token): Buy our tech, design, development or system NFT and become part of our tech NFT network... More Info
IT XR Project Redstone NFT Available for Sale: NFT for high tech turbine design with one part 3D printed counter-rotating energy turbine. Be part of the future with this NFT. Can be bought and sold but only one design NFT exists. Royalties go to the developer (Infinity) to keep enhancing design and applications... More Info
Infinity Turbine IT XR Project Redstone Design: NFT for sale... NFT for high tech turbine design with one part 3D printed counter-rotating energy turbine. Includes all rights to this turbine design, including license for Fluid Handling Block I and II for the turbine assembly and housing. The NFT includes the blueprints (cad/cam), revenue streams, and all future development of the IT XR Project Redstone... More Info
Infinity Turbine ROT Radial Outflow Turbine 24 Design and Worldwide Rights: NFT for sale... NFT for the ROT 24 energy turbine. Be part of the future with this NFT. This design can be bought and sold but only one design NFT exists. You may manufacture the unit, or get the revenues from its sale from Infinity Turbine. Royalties go to the developer (Infinity) to keep enhancing design and applications... More Info
Infinity Supercritical CO2 10 Liter Extractor Design and Worldwide Rights: The Infinity Supercritical 10L CO2 extractor is for botanical oil extraction, which is rich in terpenes and can produce shelf ready full spectrum oil. With over 5 years of development, this industry leader mature extractor machine has been sold since 2015 and is part of many profitable businesses. The process can also be used for electrowinning, e-waste recycling, and lithium battery recycling, gold mining electronic wastes, precious metals. CO2 can also be used in a reverse fuel cell with nafion to make a gas-to-liquids fuel, such as methanol, ethanol and butanol or ethylene. Supercritical CO2 has also been used for treating nafion to make it more effective catalyst. This NFT is for the purchase of worldwide rights which includes the design. More Info
NFT (Non Fungible Token): Buy our tech, design, development or system NFT and become part of our tech NFT network... More Info
Infinity Turbine Products: Special for this month, any plans are $10,000 for complete Cad/Cam blueprints. License is for one build. Try before you buy a production license. May pay by Bitcoin or other Crypto. Products Page... More Info
CONTACT TEL: 608-238-6001 Email: greg@infinityturbine.com (Standard Web Page)