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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2011
Sriram Sankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian L. Belady, Mercer Island, WA (US);
T. Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joseph M. Sherman, Redmond, WA (US);
Sriram Sankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian L. Belady, Mercer Island, WA (US);
T. Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joseph M. Sherman, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for regulating an amount of power on a power grid using a datacenter. This allows demand to be more closely brought into alignment with supply. For example, when supply exceeds demand by a predetermined level, the datacenter may increase consumption, causing demand to increase, and when demand exceeds supply and/or comes within a predetermined threshold of supply, the datacenter may decrease consumption, causing demand to decrease. In this way, the datacenter can be utilized as a regulatory tool on the grid. It may be appreciated that given the technology used by and/or operations performed by datacenters, datacenters are uniquely situated to achieve these ends as compared to other (large) energy consumers, such as manufacturing facilities that cannot shift around and/or shut-down operations swiftly.