--- title: How Google Saved 1 Billion Dollars in Data Center Cooling Costs description: Find out the one change Google made that has saved over 1 billion dollars in data center cooling costs. Yes, that's $1,000,000,000! image: https://www.airpacinc.com/hs-fs/file-15405906-jpg/images/google_data_center.jpg --- Want to see us in action? Head over to our video gallery to see what we can do! [![View Video Gallery](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/73348/6e0cd64c-ce93-4ae2-a3f8-e8fce9436848.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/73348/6e0cd64c-ce93-4ae2-a3f8-e8fce9436848) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/6162256/Icons/close.svg) [** 540.635.5011](tel:540.635.5011) [![footer_logo](https://www.airpacinc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Airpac%20_2018/Images/footer_logo.png?width=186&name=footer_logo.png "footer_logo")](https://info.airpacinc.com/homepage) ![Post Fetaured Image](https://www.airpacinc.com/hs-fs/file-15405906-jpg/images/google_data_center.jpg) # How Google Saved 1 Billion Dollars in Data Center Cooling Costs Posted by: [Tina Behnke](https://www.airpacinc.com/blog/author/tina-behnke) on Oct 19, 2012 ![Google-data-center-cooling](https://www.airpacinc.com/hs-fs/file-15405906-jpg/images/google_data_center.jpg?width=303&height=189&name=google_data_center.jpg)Every data center manager is concerned with data center cooling costs.  Especially since [**in an average data center, 30 - 40% of the electricity is consumed by the cooling system!**](https://localrenew.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Green_Data_Center_Cooling_report.pdf) **** Now you can see the exclusive video that takes you behind the scenes at one of Google's data centers in Lenoir, NC.  This [**exclusive video report by CBS This Morning**](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57533989/behind-the-cloud-a-tour-of-googles-secretive-data-facilities/?tag=showDoorLeadStoriesAreaMain;thisMorningLeadHero) shows never-seen-before footage of everything from the physical security of the compound to the hardware configuration and the data center cooling!  Honestly, the National Security Agency could probably take lessons from Google regarding security and controlled access.  ***This joint is SECURE!*** Even more impressive are the measures Google has taken to be a responsible energy consumer.  **The video shows just how UNCOOL Google's Data Center really is. ** Don't get me wrong, they're got all the computing power they need to serve up search requests by the zillions.  Google's Infrastructure Czar, Urs Holzle, reveals the **ONE change he implemented that has saved over $1,000,000,000.**  ***Yes, you read that right, 1 BILLION DOLLARS in the history of Google!******* So what is it, you ask?  What's the big secret? **Google raised the temperature in the data center from a chilly 68 degrees to a balmy 80 degrees.**  At the data center in Lenoir, NC, 90% of the energy consumption goes directly to power the servers.  That leaves** only 10% of the power consumption for data center cooling!  ************ Now ***THAT's COOL!**** *** In an effort to share their energy success, Google will put video and pictures of all data centers on their web site.  You can take a **[virtual walk through Google data center](http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/)**.  Looks like a pretty cool place to work with fussball tables and what appears to be a refrigerated keg tap! One thing is clear -- Google seems to have it all under control with Holzle at the data center helm.  Wonder how their practices compare with the [**new ASHRAE guidelines for data center cooling?**](https://www.airpacinc.com/blog/bid/82682/NEW-ASHRAE-Guidelines-for-Data-Center-Cooling)  Of course, if they ever need emergency cooling in any of their data centers, we'd be happy to help with [**spot cooling rentals**](https://www.airpacinc.com/rent-air-conditioners/). 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